WKD: returns only one pubkey (and why)
Andrew Gallagher
andrewg at andrewg.com
Mon Dec 12 15:59:21 CET 2022
On 12 Dec 2022, at 13:01, Dashamir Hoxha via Gnupg-devel <gnupg-devel at gnupg.org> wrote:
>
> On the other hand, if "being a replacement for keyservers" is not one of the aims of WKD, I think that it should become. My opinion is that it *can* be a replacement for keyservers.
>
WKD is a *partial* replacement for *some* keyserver use cases. It does not cover the following:
* Search by fingerprint
* Non-email User IDs
In addition, only the email domain owner can set up a WKD server, so it will likely never be useful for e.g. GMail addresses.
A
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