Key Server Shuffle

Every so often, I find myself interacting with the PGP/GPG ecosystem. This usually results in me bemoaning the latest step in its slow drift towards complete irrelevance.

Imagine my surprise when this week’s addition of a new signing subkey on my main key ended up finding that although the key server I had been using (pgp.re) had become defunct, quite a few new key servers seem to have sprung up, and there’s actually a reasonable number again.

I’ve pushed my most recent key update to the following:

• keys.openpgp.org (a privacy-centric island)
• pgp.mit.edu (“old faithful”)
• keyserver.ubuntu.com
• sks.pgpkeys.eu

These servers all seem to be fairly consistently available and moreover are again (mostly) participating in a functional distribution network. I’m not sure how the previous GDPR-related issues have been resolved, but it’s nice to have this back.