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Tried pgp.mit.edu, but getting a upstream proxy error.

I've found some others (keys.openpgp.org & flowcrypt.com), but the keys that they have given me so far don't even match each other... probably user error I'll figure out after 2-3 days of banging my head against this. But in the mean time, I thought I'd solicit your keyserver recommendations.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

keys.openpgp.org is the one that Thunderbird uses and I don't think that can be changed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't — I just use S/MIME which doesn't require a server. You could argue PGP is more private, but I'd argue it's only "Pretty Good". 😋

Both are more than secure enough for anything I'd be willing to put in an email.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Relevant note from the gpg man page:

Most keyservers synchronize with each other, so there is generally no need to send keys to more than one server. The keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net uses round robin DNS to give a different keyserver each time you use it.