Am Sonntag 23 März 2025 18:07:31 schrieb Frank Guthausen: > The keyserver concept is broken since there were some > attacks in the past, and there are GDPR issues, too.
I consider the concept still valid. For key discovery and a fall back for revoking keys. Only the web of trust part has become under pressure as no-one has put in the work to make keyservers carry third party signatures again. (It is possible and there are not GDPR issues.) > A modified setup is still available, but WKD is an alternative > and some users' keys are here and some there. WKD is very cool (I guess I am considered biased, as I was the project lead when WKD was developed as part of a BSI contract.) But WKD only works for email bound pubkeys. There are other use cases without email where the discovery of pubkeys work well with pub key erver. The new keyserver network is https://spider.pgpkeys.eu/sks-peers Best Regards, Bernhard -- https://intevation.de/~bernhard +49 541 33 508 3-3 Intevation GmbH, Osnabrück, DE; Amtsgericht Osnabrück, HRB 18998 Geschäftsführer: Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter
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