Re: Keyserver for gpg.conf ?

Francesco Poli <[email protected]> Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:32:05 +0100
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On Mon, 17 Nov 2025 10:49:00 -0500 Jeffrey Walton wrote:

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> Daniel Kahn Gillmor (dkg) recommends using a constrained keyserver
> like keys.openpgp.org if you want to check for certificate updates,
> revocation, expiration, or subkey rollover.

Dear Jeffrey, thanks for following up.

I've just tried to refresh 50 keys with:

  keyserver hkps://keys.openpgp.org

in my ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf


It only found 2 of them and exited with non-zero status, spitting out
out the following error message:

  gpg: keyserver refresh failed: No data


Am I the only one who's experiencing issues in refreshing OpenPGP keys
with gnupg/2.4.8-4 on an up-to-date Debian testing box?

Am I the only one left who still uses gnupg in Debian? Have you all
switched to sequoia-chameleon-gnupg, perhaps?

I am really puzzled...   :-(

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