New keyserver at keys.openpgp.org - what's your take?

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

On 7/3/19 10:17 AM, Andrew Gallagher wrote:
> On 03/07/2019 05:46, Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users wrote:
>> Beware: the HKP schema of paths is used with the keyserver in that
>> field, in GnuPG at least.
> OK, but what's the failure mode? If it's graceful, then we haven't lost
> much. So long as key updates fall back to a keyserver somewhere it
> should be transparent.
> 
> This does of course need thorough testing, as not all clients will have
> the same failure modes.
> 

at least one issue that has been pointed out historically about relying
on specification of TPK URI for refresh is privacy issues related to
callbacks and/or DoS. There are various ways this can be used for other
attack vectors as well, so they are mostly just ignored.

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