[Enigmail] Verify Public Key Export

[John Clizbe]

Carlos Williams wrote:

> 
> Is this option not available with more commonly used key servers? I
> have never heard of this one and don't know how many people really use
> "gingerbear.net".

Three SKS keyservers offer PGP-EKP. It's an external (read: add-on) email
interface to PGP Keyservers. Even though the number of keyservers which are
accessible via HTTP port 80 is steadily growing, submitting and retrieving PGP
keys via email may sometimes be the only way for users behind restrictive
firewalls to interact with the PGP keyserver network.

Details at http://www.pramberger.at/peter/software/projects/pgp-ekp/.

Those servers are (mine) keyserver.gingerbear.net, keyserver.pramberger.at
(Peter Pramberger wrote the package), and keyserver.linux.it.

> The key servers I show listed in my 'OpenPGP Preferences' are:
> 
> subkeys.pgp.net, pool.sks-keyservers.net, pgp.mit.edu, ldap://certserver.pgp.com

Last time I checked, all servers in the round-robin subkeys.pgp.net are also in
the SKS network. pgp.mit.edu should only be used for lookups.

> Can I send my public to them via email somehow? I am not sure how this
> works so sorry if this sounds dumb.

Yes, but that interface is normally used for communicating updates to and from
the older PKS keyservers.

-- 
John P. Clizbe                      Inet:John (a) Mozilla-Enigmail.org
You can't spell fiasco without SCO. hkp://keyserver.gingerbear.net  or
     mailto:pgp-public-keys at gingerbear.net?subject=HELP

Q:"Just how do the residents of Haiku, Hawai'i hold conversations?"
A:"An odd melody / island voices on the winds / surplus of vowels"

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