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Date:   Tue, 2 Aug 2022 13:21:21 -0400
From:   Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/5] maintainer-pgp-guide: remove keyserver
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On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 08:47:02AM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> 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).

This is only the case for the keyserver network that has to the large degree
gone dark. The few remaining keyservers are either configured to be
non-federating (pgp.mit.edu, afaik), or written without that feature in the
first place (keys.openpgp.org).

> 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.

I would be very much susprised if that's the case (unless the ubuntu keyserver
pulls updates from keys.openpgp.org). Last I looked, hagrid-keyserver did not
support replication/federation.

-K