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Re: Keyserver for gpg.conf ?

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Preface, I'm not a Debian developer.

You're not the only one, but after some tinkering I've discovered that there's a whole slew of "Hockeypuck" GPG/PGP servers that seem to work fine for me.

hkp://pgpkeys.eu
hkps://pgp.id

They all seem to intercommunicate reliably. I was able to issue a revocation for an old key to pgpkeys.eu and it populated across to pgp.id within minutes.

I posted on Mastodon about this and somebody sent me this link with a list of various compatible servers. I haven't tried them all, just thought I'd share.

https://spider.pgpkeys.eu/sks-peers

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On Mon, 2025-11-17 at 18:32 +0100, Francesco Poli - invernomuto at paranoici.org wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Nov 2025 10:49:00 -0500 Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> Daniel Kahn Gillmor (dkg) recommends using a constrained keyserver
>> like keys.openpgp.org if you want to check for certificate updates,
>> revocation, expiration, or subkey rollover.
>
> Dear Jeffrey, thanks for following up.
>
> I've just tried to refresh 50 keys with:
>
> keyserver hkps://keys.openpgp.org
>
> in my ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf
>
> It only found 2 of them and exited with non-zero status, spitting out
> out the following error message:
>
> gpg: keyserver refresh failed: No data
>
> Am I the only one who's experiencing issues in refreshing OpenPGP keys
> with gnupg/2.4.8-4 on an up-to-date Debian testing box?
>
> Am I the only one left who still uses gnupg in Debian? Have you all
> switched to sequoia-chameleon-gnupg, perhaps?
>
> I am really puzzled... :-(

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  Re: Keyserver for gpg.conf ? Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org> - 2025-11-15 19:10 +0100
    Re: Keyserver for gpg.conf ? Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2025-11-15 21:50 +0100
      Re: Keyserver for gpg.conf ? debianmailinglists.hz5zm@simplelogin.com - 2025-11-16 04:10 +0100
        Re: Keyserver for gpg.conf ? Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org> - 2025-11-16 17:10 +0100
        Re: Keyserver for gpg.conf ? Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> - 2025-11-17 16:30 +0100
          Re: Keyserver for gpg.conf ? Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2025-11-17 16:40 +0100
      Re: Keyserver for gpg.conf ? Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org> - 2025-11-16 17:10 +0100
    Re: Keyserver for gpg.conf ? Francesco Poli <invernomuto@paranoici.org> - 2025-11-16 13:40 +0100
      Re: Keyserver for gpg.conf ? Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org> - 2025-11-16 17:10 +0100
  Re: Keyserver for gpg.conf ? Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2025-11-17 17:00 +0100
    Re: Keyserver for gpg.conf ? Francesco Poli <invernomuto@paranoici.org> - 2025-11-17 18:40 +0100
      Re: Keyserver for gpg.conf ? Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> - 2025-11-17 18:50 +0100
      Re: Keyserver for gpg.conf ? debianmailinglists.hz5zm@simplelogin.com - 2025-11-18 01:50 +0100

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