On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 21:48:20 +0930 Tim <ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 22:10 -0500, Nick Bebout wrote: > > The Fedora Infrastructure team is pleased to announce that > > keys.fedoraproject.org is now up and running as a GPG keyserver. We > > are also part of the sks-keyservers.net pool, which means that some > > people using pool.sks-keyservers.net will be directed to our server. > > Based on prior experience with another key server, what happens when > we upload our keys? Does it disseminate the keys? Does it provide a > list of contacts upon request (i.e. a list, rather than respond to > specific queries for the key for a specific person). It's an sks keyserver. In that network of keyservers. http://sks-keyservers.net/ So, yes, it syncs keys to the other keyservers. > The reason I ask, is long ago I uploaded a key, and was the immediate > target of spam to that address. I added another address to the key, > and it got spammed as well. This went on for a very long time > (years). I removed some addresses from that key, and those addresses > stopped receiving spam, shortly afterwards (days). So, that > keyserver, or a linked one, was obviously being monitored on a > continuing basis to spam active addresses. I've forgotten which one > it was, now, but it wasn't some obscure server, it was one of the > ones listed in the guides for either GPG or PGP. > > I'm just not prepared to put up with that sort of crap anymore. I've seen no increase in spam after our keyserver is up. kevin
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