Re: Can't propagate key through public keyservers

2006-10-30 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:42, David SMITH said: > Does anyone have any more details on exactly *what* is "broken" on the > pks keyservers? I'm going to have to convince our IT department that it's PKS does not support OpenPGP. What it does is just a hack to support one subkey but no full merging c

Re: Can't propagate key through public keyservers

2006-10-30 Thread Olaf Gellert
David SMITH wrote: > Does anyone have any more details on exactly *what* is "broken" on the > pks keyservers? I'm going to have to convince our IT department that it's > the keyserver that's broken, and not my key (since no-one else has the > problem, as they all use single subkeys), and I think

Re: Can't propagate key through public keyservers

2006-10-30 Thread David SMITH
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 07:26:24PM +0200, Werner Koch wrote: > On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:10, David SMITH said: > > I'm having some problems with my GnuPG-generated key. I have one > > primary DSA for signing (which does not expire), and then every 6 months > > I generate a new El-Gamal encryption key

Re: Can't propagate key through public keyservers

2006-10-28 Thread Olaf Gellert
John Clizbe wrote: > John W. Moore III wrote: >> I'd recommend hkp://blackhole.pca.dfn.de > > I wouldn't, and it has nothing to do with the server choice. Well, I would not be so harsh. I guess there are pretty well connected servers (concerning bandwidth and reliability of network lines) and n

Re: Can't propagate key through public keyservers

2006-10-28 Thread Bjoern Buerger
John Clizbe wrote: >>I'd recommend hkp://blackhole.pca.dfn.de The that server has always been a good choice, since it is maintained by Germany`s National Research and Education Network and their people are payed to keep the Service running ;-) So I would second that recommendation for users in G

Re: Can't propagate key through public keyservers

2006-10-28 Thread John Clizbe
John W. Moore III wrote: > Bjoern Buerger wrote: >> Michael Kallas wrote: >>> hkp://subkeys.pgp.net or hkp://sks.keyserver.penguin.de ? > >> Sorry, the latter is down at the moment. But you can >> try hkp://random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de instead, >> which is a collection of public sks keyservers.

Re: Can't propagate key through public keyservers

2006-10-27 Thread Bjoern Buerger
Michael Kallas wrote: > hkp://subkeys.pgp.net or hkp://sks.keyserver.penguin.de ? Sorry, the latter is down at the moment. But you can try hkp://random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de instead, which is a collection of public sks keyservers. All of them treat subkeys in a safe way. Greetings, Bjørn __

Re: Can't propagate key through public keyservers

2006-10-27 Thread John W. Moore III
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Bjoern Buerger wrote: > Michael Kallas wrote: >> hkp://subkeys.pgp.net or hkp://sks.keyserver.penguin.de ? > > Sorry, the latter is down at the moment. But you can > try hkp://random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de instead, > which is a collection of publi

Re: Can't propagate key through public keyservers

2006-10-27 Thread Michael Kallas
Hi, David SMITH schrieb: > Now, when I upload my public key to a keyserver it all appears to go OK, > but when someone else then tries to download my key, the sub-key is > missing/doesn't work. Have you ever tried hkp://subkeys.pgp.net or hkp://sks.keyserver.penguin.de ? Broken keyservers have se

Re: Can't propagate key through public keyservers

2006-10-27 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:10, David SMITH said: > I'm having some problems with my GnuPG-generated key. I have one > primary DSA for signing (which does not expire), and then every 6 months > I generate a new El-Gamal encryption key (which expires after 6 months). That is fine. Many folks do it li

Can't propagate key through public keyservers

2006-10-27 Thread David SMITH
Hi all, I'm having some problems with my GnuPG-generated key. I have one primary DSA for signing (which does not expire), and then every 6 months I generate a new El-Gamal encryption key (which expires after 6 months). Now, when I upload my public key to a keyserver it all appears to go OK, but