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Yes, PGP is dead but not because of any of the reasons this article points out. It's dead for a very simple reason: it's really hard to find active PGP/GPG key

by zxspectrum1982 5y ago

Yes, PGP is dead but not because of any of the reasons this article points out. It's dead for a very simple reason: it's really hard to find active PGP/GPG keyservers. Fedora keyserver? Dead Debian keyserver? Dead openSUSE keyserver? Dead SKS keyserver pool? Dead keys.gnupg.net? Dead keys.openpgp.org? Half-dead (HKPS access not working, it seems only web is working) etc Very few keyservers are still online and some of then don't sync with the others (e. g. keyserver.pgp.com).

Valodim 5y ago
> keys.openpgp.org? Half-dead (HKPS access not working, it seems only web is working) etc Can you be more specific? HKPS looks fine from here, and we've had no downtimes on our monitoring.
- zxspectrum1982 5y ago
  [zxspectrum@zxspectrum ~]$ gpg --refresh-keys gpg: refreshing 204 keys from hkps://keys.openpgp.org gpg: keyserver refresh failed: No keyserver available
  - Valodim 5y ago
    This is likely an issue with GnuPG, respectively its dirmngr component. This can typically be fixed via `killall dirmngr`. See also https://dev.gnupg.org/T4513 https://dev.gnupg.org/T4513 For a simple check, those two commands perform exactly the same http request: > curl https://keys.openpgp.org/pks/lookup?op=get&options=mr&search=0xF357AA1A5B1FA42CFD9FE52A9FF2194CC09A61E8 https://keys.openpgp.org/pks/lookup?op=get&options=mr&search... > gpg --keyserver hkps://keys.openpgp.org --recv-keys F357AA1A5B1FA42CFD9FE52A9FF2194CC09A61E8
grobbie 5y ago
https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/ https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/ Still going strong.