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Where to upload PGP public key? Are KeyServers still surviving?

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 202683091 views
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I want to upload my PGP public key on a public server. Till the time PGP was an independent organization, I heard a lot about KeyServers, but after Symantec acquired PGP, what is the future of these servers? Is there any other alternative way to keep my public keys online?

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Yes, keyservers still exist (though the situation has changed since 2011): The SKS Keyserver Pool (stats) is dead as of 2023. still online, but just barely. Its participants have dwindled since this post was originally written in 2011, dropping from around a hundred to just ~20. (Of those, only 1-2 servers participate in the "HKPS" sub-pool, which is used by GnuPG in the default configuration. If your GnuPG reports "General error" when retrieving keys, that's because the pool has completely dra…

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