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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/5] maintainer-pgp-guide: remove keyserver
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To:     Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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On 7/29/22 03:57, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> Keyservers are largely a thing of the past with the replacement systems
> like keys.openpgp.net specifically designed to offer no support for the
> web of trust. Remove all sections that talk about keyservers and add a
> small section with the link to kernel.org documentation that talks about
> using the kernel.org public key repository.
> 

AFAIK, keyservers are synchronized (federated). For example, when I submit
my key to keys.openpgp.net, other keyservers (like keyserver.ubuntu.com
that I use) also gets a copy of my key. So "replacement systems" in
this case is referred to kernel.org key repository (using git). The
wording should be "Replace keyservers section with kernel.org public
key repository usage".

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