gpg --recv-keys fails / no longer use keyservers for anything

[Patrick]

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You can have two out of three
of decentralisation, universality, and abuse-resistance. WKD is
decentralised and abuse-resistant but is not universal. keys.openpgp.org
is universal and abuse-resistant but highly centralised (and
functionally limited). Synchronising keyservers (SKS and Hockeypuck) are
decentralised and universal but abuse-prone.

So we have various options.

• Default GPG keyservers (Hockeypuck)
• new, fixed keyserver - keys.openpgp.org
• SKS (which started the mess why this forum thread was started)
• WKD
• Some of the options mentioned in the gnupg man page quoted in previous post gpg --recv-keys fails / no longer use keyservers for anything - #20 by Patrick.
  • cert
  • pka
  • dane
  • ldap
  • ntds
• No default key server.

Picking the best technical solution if it had no traction (no actual users) (didn’t check) would also not be helpful for users.