Re: [openpgp] keyserver protocol

David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com> Thu, 03 January 2013 22:53 UTC

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On Jan 3, 2013, at 3:14 PM, Jesus Cea <jcea@jcea.es> wrote:

> Hi, everybody.
> 
> I have been following SKS mailing lists for years and I wonder how can
> OpenPGP rely on an undocumented protocol, with only a single codebase
> written in a unusual language for something so paramount as keyservers
> and key distribution :-).
> 
> http://minsky-primus.homeip.net/sks/

I actually wrote this up at one point as an informational draft, but for one reason or another didn't finish submitting it.  If there is interest, I can clean it up and submit:

  http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-shaw-openpgp-hkp-00.txt

David