GPG Key Server Doesn´t Work
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damienffm
Sep 22 2021, 5:58 PM

Description

Hello,

unfortunately I don´t get any results searching a public key via email adress through the primary conigured server: hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net.

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Version
Gpg4win-3.1.16 5.77.0, Gpg4win

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The keyserver network has been shutdown a couple of months ago. We can't do anything about it. The default in newer gpg versions has changed; you may put

keyserver  hkps://keyserver.ubunto.com

into your gpg.conf or better keyserver.conf. If you use the latter make sure no keyserver has been set into gpg.conf

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• werner edited projects, added Keyserver, FAQ, Support; removed Bug Report.

Ah well, Kleopatra has a GUI to set the keyserver - that is probably easier to use.