Hi.
Many thanks John - that was the answer i was looking for! Dont really know that much about this but i would love to learn. I just want to share som keys, privately and the LDAP sound much better since we already are running some server.
Do you have some great tutorials or how to set this up? That would be great if you could share a hint or two.
Many thanks again.
Regards
p
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Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:35:24 -0500
From: John Clizbe <JPClizbe@...>
Subject: Re: [Macgpg-users] Own private keyserver?
To: Macgpg-users@...
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Piero Giobbi wrote:
Thx for answering!
I new at this and my idea with a private keyserver was to exchange keys
for encrypting emails in a easier way than "manually" send keys back and
forth. Apple Mail can search for keys on an server and if I'm not
mistaken this is the server to use for that?
Yes, SKS is the predominant OpenPGP key server package these days.
But, the use-case you are describing doesn't really require you to run
you own server, just use the existing keyserver network. Configure your
applications to send to and search pool.sks-keyservers.net and you're
finished.
Your term "private keyserver" is confusing. If you are wanting to share
a small group of keys without exposing them to the public Internet, SKS
is overkill, LDAP makes more sense in a small use situation like this.
SKS in a non-public enterprise setting, makes sense with probably over
50000 keys, but even so, these enterprises probably already have an
existing LDAP infrastructure to build upon. Nearly all SKS
implementations are configured to share the global OpenPGP key share
(presently a ~4GB keyring). Depending on configuration, it takes 6-8GB
for the database and indexes.
I'm not saying, do not build a SKS server. Just be sure you're doing it
for sensible reasons.
Any hint or tips to set this up is greatly appreciated. I will be using a
Linux/Debian for this.
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