Public Key Server

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 22:46, Mike Broome wrote:
> 
> The way I understand it, all (?) of the keyservers are linked, but there
> can be propagation delays.  I checked the FAQ at pgp.mit.edu and at
> www.keyserver.net, and both mention that the keys they get are sent on
> to other servers (although they don't say which ones).  The FAQ at
> www.keyserver.net specifically says to only send updates to one
> keyserver and the update with be spread to all the other keyservers.

It looks like the FAQ at pgp.mit.edu isn't quite right, or at least
www.keyserver.net isn't syncing with the other key servers.  My key has
been at www.keyserver.net for over a month, but didn't show up on
wwwkeys.*.pgp.net until I uploaded it there on Monday.  That seems like
an excessive propagation delay... :-)  However, it does look like the
MIT server is connecting to wwwkeys.*.pgp.net fine.   

FYI, I've signed everyone's keys from Monday night, and uploaded the
updated keyring to both the MIT server (which syncs with
wwwkeys.pgp.net) and www.keyserver.net.

Regards,
Jeremy Portzer