where is this documented?
where is that goofy port number they use in PGP 5 documented?
Has anyone tried this with a proxy server?
This doesn't work with some firewalls.
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 97 17:38:16 MDT
From: bruecknr(_at_)D012S437(_dot_)mch(_dot_)sni(_dot_)de (Frank Brueckner)
To: ietf-open-pgp(_at_)imc(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: key server lookup protocol?
Sender: owner-ietf-open-pgp(_at_)imc(_dot_)org
Rodney, Harald,
Is there a document anywhere describing the key lookup protocol used in
PGP
5? ...
FWIW, it would have been *really* nice if this had been implemented as a
WWW
transaction, instead of as a separate protocol (on a separate port). Ah
well; too late now, I guess.
Not too late ;-)
PGP 5.0 sends the following request:
"GET /pks/lookup?op=get&exact=on&search=<Email Address|Key ID> HTTP/1.0"
So you can run a CGI script acting as a Key Server (for retrieval), getting
the key out from a data base (e.g. X.500) and sending back an application
context like text/html or application/pgp-keys with the PGP Key in Ascii
Armor.
Frank.