SKS OpenPGP Keyserver @pgp.ugcs.caltech.edu

About

This public keyserver is a service provided by the Undergraduate Computer Science Cluster (UGCS) at the California Institute of Technology. You may also be interested in the timestamp service. This keyserver can also be accessed at pgp.ugcs.caltech.edu, pgp.ugcs.net, and pgp.ugcs.org. As a free public service, the UGCS OpenPGP Keyserver is provided with absolutely no warranty or guarantee of any kind. If you write a filesystem that stores media on PGP public keys and back up your hard drive to our server, we will hunt you down and you will be banned from the internet.

Software

SKS is a new OpenPGP keyserver.  The main innovation of SKS is that it includes a highly-efficient reconciliation algorithm for keeping the keyservers synchronized.  You can learn more about SKS at the Savannah page, here.  

Contact

Should you have any issues or concerns, or wish to synchronize with us (sks gossip protocol or pks email sync) please email sysadmins@ugcs.caltech.edu.

You're welcome to download a keydump from our servers at http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~pgp/backups/.

Extract a key You can extract a key by typing in some words that appear in the userid of the key you're looking for, or by typing in the keyid in hex format ("0x...") Search String: Show PGP "fingerprints" for keys Show SKS full-key hashes Search for keys: get regular index of matching keys get verbose index of matching keys retrieve ascii-armored keys retrieve keys by full-key hash
Submit a key You can submit a key by simply pasting in the ASCII-armored version of your key and clicking on submit.	xkcd by Randall Munroe