Fun facts about GPG's public key infrastructure: 1. The protocol used to gossip public keys in the GPG keyserver pool is completely undocumented[1]. 2. The pr

Fun facts about GPG's public key infrastructure: 1. The protocol used to gossip public keys in the GPG keyserver pool is completely undocumented[1]. 2. The protocol for uploading and downloading public keys from the pool only ever made it to draft stage, and is now very outdated[2]. 3. Because the keyserver protocols are not establish, there is only one implementation that is written in OCaml (luckily it is still maintained)[3]. Luckily, these issues are fixable. We just need to spend the resources to fix them. What if GPG had the same resources as WhatsApp? [1]: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/sks-devel/2014-02/msg00007.html https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/sks-devel/2014-02/msg0... [2]: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-shaw-openpgp-hkp-00 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-shaw-openpgp-hkp-00 [3]: https://bitbucket.org/skskeyserver/sks-keyserver https://bitbucket.org/skskeyserver/sks-keyserver