PGP Is Dead? (2018)

Re:PGP Is Dead? (2018) by zxspectrum1982 on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @07:39PM (#28386930)

Yes, PGP is dead but not because of any of the reasons this article points out.

It's dead for a very simple reason: it's really hard to find active PGP/GPG keyservers.

Fedora keyserver? Dead

Debian keyserver? Dead

openSUSE keyserver? Dead

SKS keyserver pool? Dead

keys.gnupg.net? Dead

keys.openpgp.org? Half-dead (HKPS access not working, it seems only web is working) etc

Very few keyservers are still online and some of then don't sync with the others (e. g. keyserver.pgp.com).

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Re:PGP Is Dead? (2018) by Valodim on Thursday September 02, 2021 @03:12AM (#28389449)

> keys.openpgp.org? Half-dead (HKPS access not working, it seems only web is working) etc

Can you be more specific? HKPS looks fine from here, and we've had no downtimes on our monitoring.

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Re:PGP Is Dead? (2018) by zxspectrum1982 on Thursday September 02, 2021 @10:22AM (#28392399)

[zxspectrum@zxspectrum ~]$ gpg --refresh-keys

gpg: refreshing 204 keys from hkps://keys.openpgp.org

gpg: keyserver refresh failed: No keyserver available

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Re:PGP Is Dead? (2018) by Valodim on Friday September 03, 2021 @08:42AM (#28403378)

This is likely an issue with GnuPG, respectively its dirmngr component. This can typically be fixed via `killall dirmngr`. See also https://dev.gnupg.org/T4513

For a simple check, those two commands perform exactly the same http request: > curl https://keys.openpgp.org/pks/lookup?op=get&options=mr&search... > gpg --keyserver hkps://keys.openpgp.org --recv-keys F357AA1A5B1FA42CFD9FE52A9FF2194CC09A61E8

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Re:PGP Is Dead? (2018) by grobbie on Thursday September 02, 2021 @01:04PM (#28394556)

https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/

Still going strong.

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