Keyserver software

[John Clizbe]

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Ren Xiaolei wrote:

> Hello,gnupg-users,
>
> 	I want to build a keyserver on the Windows platform. Which software
> should I use? Certainly, it needs to be free to use because I've no money
> to buy a commerical software.
>
> Best Regards.
>

I think you're in for some rather extensive porting. Most of the freely
available keyserver packages were initially developed & hosted on *nix
platforms. And while some of the tools required (gcc, awk, Ruby, OCaml,
gdbm, BerkeleyDB) have been ported to Win32, I have not seen nor heard
evidence of full success getting a keyserver ported to Win32.

Some links you may find useful:

# OpenPKSD http://www.openpksd.org/ (SQL Backend and written in ruby)
# pks (old) cf. http://pgp.mit.edu/
# CryptNET implementation (PgSQL)http://www.cryptnet.net/fsp/cks/
# pks + patch http://www.sf.net/projects/pks/ (the most used and quite
	active for dev.)
# sks http://sourceforge.net/projects/sks/ (written in ocaml)

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