Key server software written by Michael Graff For questions or comments regarding this key server site, contact perry@jpunix.com Current version: 1.1.1.1 1994/06/20 03:09:59 NOTE! This service is NOT supported in any way whatsoever by J. P. and Assoc. 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. Direct questions and comments to John Perry Key server software written by Michael Graff For questions or comments regarding this key server site, contact explorer@iastate.edu Current version: $Revision: 2.1 $ $Date: 1994/06/11 22:21:51 $ NOTE! This service is NOT supported in any way whatsoever by J. P. and Associates. 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. Direct questions and comments to John Perry 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 MGET regexp Get all keys which match /regexp/ LAST days Get the keys updated in the last `days' days ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Examples for the MGET command: MGET michael Gets all keys which have "michael" in them MGET iastate All keys which contain "iastate" MGET E8F605A5|5F3E38F5 Those two keyid's One word about regexps: These are not the same as the wildcards Unix shells and MSDOS uses. a * isn't ``match anything'' it means ``match zero or more of the previous character'' like: a* matches anything beginning with an a ab*c matches ac, abc, abbc, etc. Just try not to use ``MGET .*'' -- use ``GET'' instead. 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 Last checked: Mon Jun 13 1994 pgp-public-keys@pgp.mit.edu (*) Derek Atkins Massachusetts Institute of Technology ftp://pgp.mit.edu/pub/keys/public-keys.pgp Last checked: Mon Jun 13 1994 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 Last checked: Mon Jun 13 1994 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. Last checked: Mon Jun 13 1994 pgp-public-keys@jpunix.com (*) John Perry J. P. and Associates Last checked: Sat Jul 16 1994 UK (United Kingdom) sites: pgp-public-keys@demon.co.uk Mark Turner ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/pgp/pubring.pgp Last checked: Mon Jun 13 1994 pgp-public-keys@pgp.ox.ac.uk Paul Leyland Oxford Last checked: Mon Jun 13 1994 NL (Netherlands) sites: pgp-public-keys@kub.nl Teun Nijssen Tilburg University No FTP access. Last checked: Mon Jun 13 1994 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 Last checked: Wed Jun 8 1994 JP (Japan) sites: pgp-public-keys@ext221.sra.co.jp Hironobu SUZUKI AU (Australia) sites: pgp-public-keys@sw.oz.au Jeremy Fitzhardinge Last checked: Wed Jun 8 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 Last checked: Wed Jun 8 ZA (Republic of South Africa) sites: pgp-public-keys@proxima.alt.za Lucio de Re [ This site may be dead. I get no reply. You may wish to try another site until this one is checked out. ] (*) 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