Re: [Sks-devel] Submitting keys via email

[Phil Pennock]

On 2013-06-28 at 09:10 +0300, Stefan Parviainen wrote:
> Is it possible for a user to submit their public key to a keyserver via
> email? I've seen some references to this being possible (and besides,
> isn't the whole key exchange between servers email based?) but haven't
> found anywhere exactly how to do it.

Since this is the SKS list, I'll speak to how things are with SKS.

Each keyserver operator may, or may not, choose to set up an email alias
which invokes a helper tool for injecting keys.

This alias, and the resulting address, is not automatically exported by
the stats page and so does not make it into any pool systems.

So you're probably better off using one of the existing well-known email
addresses.

One of them has a simple document describing the commands available:

  http://pgp.mit.edu/emailhelp.html

-Phil