February 12, 2002
Practical Aspects of Modern Cryptography
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PGP Keyservers
nAnswer: The PGP keyserver network
nA distributed network of key/cert databases that can be queried by anyone.
nStarted as a mail-based server network
nMail in your key, it gets added to the server’s keyring.
nMail in a request for a key, you get sent back a subring containing every key that matched your query.
nServers updated each other by passing around “add key” requests.