pgp public key service is becoming critical infrastructure. unfortunately, i have been unable to get useful key lookup for a long time. i have been trying <http://pgpkeys.mit.edu/> at jeff schiller's recommendation, and <http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pks-toplev.html> which used to work once upon a time. neither work for me. EXMH 2.1.2 and later shipped with http://keys.pgp.com:11371/pks/lookup as the URL to check by default. I would have put www.pgp.net as the server, but of the 5 servers I checked, 2 were net-unreachable and one tossed a
so, thanks to many nanogians, i now have a selection of servers, multi- addressed servers, an ldap server, ... i can try when i need this service. needless to say, i am not impressed. while i guess i can limp along like this, it does not feel like what i would call a production quality service. but thanks to all for the clues. randy