The FTP Based Key Server System
Rather than using the
Email based system
which is non-realtime,
or the
WWW interface
which only fetches one key at a time,
sites making frequent lookups may care to copy the
published public key ring
from the
FTP key server
(which also holds
PGP code).
The ftp.pgp.net data is replicated
on a number of servers across the internet.
If you intend to access reasonable sized files, or if performance is poor or erratic,
it would be advisable to select one of the "local" servers,
rather than
leaving it to the whim of the DNS
as to which server is accessed.
Local servers currently available are:
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