-----PGP----- Key server software written by Marc Horowitz For questions or comments regarding this key server site, contact jis@mit.edu Current version: 0.1b1 WARNING: This is a new implementation of a PGP keyserver. It is much faster then the old one, but perhaps a little green. It also has a native Web Interface which you can reach at http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pks-toplev.html. NOTE! This service is here to help transfer keys between PGP users. It does NOT attempt to guarantee that a key is a valid key; use the signators on a key for that kind of security. This service can be discontinued at any time without prior notification. -----PGP----- WARNING: This is a new somewhat experimental keyserver (but very very fast). Note: The MGET request is *not* supported in this version. Also, don't use the LAST request because the database was re-initialized and you will get the whole keyring. The keyring was reinitialized on 2/16/96. So don't attempt a last that will return keys before then as you will wind up getting the whole (gargantuan) keyring. -Jeff Schiller 2/16/96 PGP Public Keyservers --------------------- There are PGP public key servers which allow one to exchange public keys running through the Internet and UUCP mail systems. NOTE! This service is NOT supported in any way whatsoever by the schools or organizations on which these servers run. It is here only to help transfer keys between PGP users. It does NOT attempt to guarantee that a key is a valid key; use the signators on a key for that kind of security. This service can be discontinued at any time without prior notification. Each keyserver processes requests in the form of mail messages. The commands for the server are entered on the Subject: line. To: pgp-public-keys@pgp.iastate.edu From: johndoe@some.site.edu Subject: help Sending your key to ONE server is enough. After it processes your key, it will forward your add request to other servers automagically. For example, to add your key to the keyserver, or to update your key if it is already there, send a message similar to the following to any server: To: pgp-public-keys@pgp.iastate.edu From: johndoe@some.site.edu Subject: add -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6 -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- COMPROMISED KEYS: Create a Key Revocation Certificate (read the PGP docs on how to do that) and mail your key to the server once again, with the ADD command. Valid commands are: Command Message body contains ---------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ADD Your PGP public key (key to add is body of msg) INDEX List all PGP keys the server knows about (-kv) VERBOSE INDEX List all PGP keys, verbose format (-kvv) GET Get the whole public key ring (split) GET userid Get just that one key LAST days Get the keys updated in the last `days' days ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Note on the ``GET'' command: If at all possible, ftp the keyring from a server rather than using the ``GET'' command to return the whole ring. Currently, this ring comes out to be around 40 files of 52k each. This is a lot of files, and a lot of bother to get in the right order to run through PGP. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ List of Servers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Last updated: Mon Jun 13 10:38:03 CDT 1994 Internet connected sites: US (United States) sites: pgp-public-keys@pgp.iastate.edu (*) Michael Graff Iowa State University ftp://pgp.iastate.edu/pub/pgp/public-keys.pgp pgp-public-keys@pgp.mit.edu (*) Derek Atkins Massachusetts Institute of Technology ftp://pgp.mit.edu/pub/keys/public-keys.pgp pgp-public-keys@pgp.ai.mit.edu (*) Brian A. LaMacchia Massachusetts Institute of Technology WWW interface: http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html pgp-public-keys@burn.ucsd.edu (*) Andy Howard University of California at San Diego ftp://burn.ucsd.edu/Crypto/public-keys.pgp Gopher access to FTP ring. pgp-public-keys@jpunix.com (*) John Perry J. P. and Associates UK (United Kingdom) sites: pgp-public-keys@demon.co.uk Mark Turner ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/pgp/pubring.pgp pgp-public-keys@pgp.ox.ac.uk Paul Leyland Oxford No FTP access. NL (Netherlands) sites: pgp-public-keys@kub.nl Teun Nijssen Tilburg University No FTP access. DE (Germany) sites: pgp-public-keys@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vesselin Vladimirov Bontchev ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/pub/virus/misc/pubkring.pgp JP (Japan) sites: pgp-public-keys@ext221.sra.co.jp Hironobu SUZUKI AU (Australia) sites: pgp-public-keys@sw.oz.au Jeremy Fitzhardinge SU (Soviet Union) sites: pgp-public-keys@kiae.su Victor A. Borisov IT (Italian Republic) sites: pgp-public-keys@dsi.unimi.it David Vincenzetti University of Milan ftp://ftp.dsi.unimi.it/pub/security/crypt/PGP/public-keys.pgp ZA (Republic of South Africa) sites: pgp-public-keys@proxima.alt.za Lucio de Re [ This site is down until further notice ] (*) Marked sites are, because of legal reasons, running a version of the key server which filters keys based on version number. If you mail in a key to one of these servers and the version is not accepted, you will be notified via email. The versions accepted are 2.4 and later. Check the Usenet newsgroup alt.security.pgp for updates to this system and for new sites. --Michael Graff -----PGP-------