Announcing Fedora GPG Key Server - keys.fedoraproject.org

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 21:48:20 +0930
Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 22:10 -0500, Nick Bebout wrote:
> > The Fedora Infrastructure team is pleased to announce that
> > keys.fedoraproject.org is now up and running as a GPG keyserver.  We
> > are also part of the sks-keyservers.net pool, which means that some
> > people using pool.sks-keyservers.net will be directed to our server.
> 
> Based on prior experience with another key server, what happens when
> we upload our keys?  Does it disseminate the keys?  Does it provide a
> list of contacts upon request (i.e. a list, rather than respond to
> specific queries for the key for a specific person).

It's an sks keyserver. In that network of keyservers. 

http://sks-keyservers.net/

So, yes, it syncs keys to the other keyservers. 

> The reason I ask, is long ago I uploaded a key, and was the immediate
> target of spam to that address.  I added another address to the key,
> and it got spammed as well.  This went on for a very long time
> (years).  I removed some addresses from that key, and those addresses
> stopped receiving spam, shortly afterwards (days).  So, that
> keyserver, or a linked one, was obviously being monitored on a
> continuing basis to spam active addresses.  I've forgotten which one
> it was, now, but it wasn't some obscure server, it was one of the
> ones listed in the guides for either GPG or PGP.
> 
> I'm just not prepared to put up with that sort of crap anymore.

I've seen no increase in spam after our keyserver is up. 

kevin

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