From: ferguson@icm1.icp.net (Paul Ferguson x2044)
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 93 15:43:06 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: (fwd) Re: Keyserver going down
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In light of the recent closure of the .toxicwaste keyserver, I thought
that this message from Vess was rather timely.

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> From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
> Newsgroups: sci.crypt,alt.security,comp.security.misc,alt.security.pgp,alt.security.keydist
> Subject: Re: Keyserver going down
> Date: 3 Dec 1993 13:14:21 GMT
> Organization: University of Hamburg -- Germany
> Message-ID: <2dne3d$ofc@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
> References: <WARLORD.93Dec2161745@toxicwaste.mit.edu> <gbeCHFxIy.42F@netcom.com> <2dn9re$6n5@news.mantis.co.uk>
> NNTP-Posting-Host: fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de
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> 
> Tony Lezard (tony@mantis.co.uk) writes:
> 
> > >With both toxicwaste and iastate now out of business, what key servers
> > >are still operating?
> 
> > The folling list comes straight from keyserv.doc, in the PGP source files
> 
> Unfortunately, I have the impression that the information there is
> slightly out-of-date. I would prefer to get a direct reply to the
> question asked from the people who run the keyservers.
> 
> > archive. I must say, although I'm not one for conspicacy theories, the
> > sudden and unexplained closure of *two* key servers in such a short time
> > does make me a bit ... suspicious. Why were they closed?
> 
> Yes, me too... Two keyservers, both in the USA, both were closed with
> no explications given, both were closed rather fast... Is it what
> we're all thinking about or are we just paranoid?
> 
> > Internet sites:
> 
> [list deleted]
> 
> I have installed a public key server at our site as an experiment. It
> took quite a long time, because I am not root on our machine and a
> regular user installing such software is not a trivial task and has
> some security implications.
> 
> Till now, our server was syncronized only with one of the US ones.
> Now, after two US servers have been closed down, I would like to
> activate ours and to syncronise it with all other servers around the
> world. It is currently working (you can get and send public keys); it
> is just not syncronized with the other servers.
> 
> Could please those who are running such servers and agree to have them
> syncronized with ours contact me, so that I can include their site in
> my CONFIG file?
> 
> The information for our server is:
> 
> pgp-public-keys@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de
> 	Vesselin Bontchev
> 	bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de
> 	FTP: ftp.informatik.uni-hamburg.de:/pub/virus/misc/pubkring.pgp
> 
> Requests to the server are processed every 15 minutes.
> 
> Regards,
> Vesselin
> - --
> Vesselin Vladimirov Bontchev          Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
> Tel.:+49-40-54715-224, Fax: +49-40-54715-226      Fachbereich Informatik - AGN
> < PGP 2.3 public key available on request. > Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, rm. 107 C
> e-mail: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de        22527 Hamburg, Germany
> 
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