Re: [Sks-devel] Submitting keys via email

[Phil Pennock]

On 2013-06-28 at 17:59 -0400, Phil Pennock wrote:
> One of them has a simple document describing the commands available:
> 
>   http://pgp.mit.edu/emailhelp.html

Oh, that doesn't describe how to upload; sorry.

This one does:
  http://www.pgp.net/pgpnet/email-help-en.html

If you're modifying code to add support for this, you should consider
just adding keyserver support, it's a very simple HTTP POST and there
are resilient pool addresses to help.

If you're doing things manually, then you just insert the ASCII-armoured
key in the body of the mail and send it to the relevant email address.
Historically, the default was "pgp-keys@" and you might have to use a
Subject: header of "ADD".

With SKS servers, they always add and do not honour any other commands.

For example:

  gpg -a --export $my_key_id | Mail -s ADD address@hidden

(I make no public guarantee of continued availability of that address,
 do not hard-code it anywhere, but for now it should work.)

If you check the docs for the non-SKS keyserver you care about, you can
find the correct requirements for that implementation.

-Phil