SKS is a OpenPGP keyserver whose goal is to provide easy to deploy, decentralized, and highly reliable synchronization. That means that a key submitted to one SKS server will quickly be distributed to all key servers, and even wildly out-of-date servers, or servers that experience spotty connectivity, can fully synchronize with rest of the system.
You can find out more about SKS, along with links to graphs of the network status here.
You can download all of the binaries running on this server using monotone: mtn clone ice.mudshark.org --branch=org.mudshark.sks
Extract a keyYou can extract a key by typing in some words that appear in the userid of the key you're looking for, or by typing in the keyid in hex format ("0x...")
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Submit a keyYou can submit a key by simply pasting in the ASCII-armored version of your key and clicking on submit. |
AccessTo use this server directly via HKP add this to your PGP keyserver list:x-hkp://ice.mudshark.org http://ice.mudshark.org:80 http://ice.mudshark.org:11371You can also select a random server by adding this to your keyserver list: http://pool.sks-keyservers.net:11371 http://pool.sks-keyservers.net:11371 |
081130: finish update to sks 1.1.0, update web pages
081116: Rebuild KDB and upgrade to sks 1.1.0 (rm -rf run amok)
081206: Rebuild KDB (disk crash)
080516: Rebuild KDB (disk full)
071217: Rebuilt PTree DB (power failure)
061228: New IP address
061218: Rebuilt PTree DB (power failure)
060702: Rebuilt PTree DB (power failure)
050923: Upgraded to sks 1.0.10