Collaborate Disseminate
I’m not really an expert on different key types but here it goes. My company never really managed keys. We have an SKS server that was set up to manage GPG keys for a couple of users sending encrypted documents.
Now a new re… Continue reading Which tool/key manager to manage people’s public keys in organization?
Part of the web of trust of GPG is the use of Keyservers to publish/distribute versions of public keys. It’s encouraged of course to sign public keys you trust so the the web may grow.
How does a Keyserver deal with the foll… Continue reading How does a GPG Keyserver deal with conflicting signatures?
Background
Traditionally, in addition to cryptographic data, an OpenPGP public key contains User IDs and 3rd-party signatures for identification and Web-of-Trust verification, and it’s distributed by a network of keyservers…. Continue reading How do I verify a signature by using a OpenPGP public key without User ID (Redacted User IDs)?
I’m working in a task for class where I need to sign my public key with 3 signatures. After I got them, I need to send my key back to the keyserver with these 3 new signatures.
The thing is that when I search for my key, I ju… Continue reading How do I check if my key is updated in a keyserver after I resend it with new signatures?
What is the difference (if any) between a Key Server and an Encryption Engine?
Is a Key Server also the same as a Key Manager?
I’ve seen the terms Encryption Engine, Key Server and Key Manager used interchangeably and now … Continue reading Encryption Engine vs Key Server
Today I started learning how to work with GPG keys. I successfully generated a pair for me, and imported some other keys, encrypted some files and successfully decrypted them.
I want to send my GPG key to the keyserver, but … Continue reading Sending the GPG key to keyserver
I want to implement a network of HSMs to secure millions of private keys. To increase fault tolerance and speed, I would want this network to run RAID 50 (striping, parity and duplication). As I understand, one of the key poi… Continue reading RAID on HSM network
I am new to public key cryptography. I see from keyservers it’s possible to do a look up for public keys associated with an email address.
Is there a reverse function available to check what email/domain a public key relate… Continue reading How do I check who a public PGP/RSA key belongs to?
I am new to public key cryptography. I see from keyservers it’s possible to do a look up for public keys associated with an email address.
Is there a reverse function available to check what email/domain a public key relate… Continue reading How do I check who a public PGP/RSA key belongs to?
I hit this issue several times with different calls of gpg (recommended in tutorials).
This time it is:
$ gpg –keyserver pgp.mit.edu –recv-keys 0x4ABA2F66DBD5A95894910E0673D770CDA59047B9
gpg: requesting key A59047B9 from h… Continue reading Why am I unable to fetch PGP keys from commandline?