On 12/30/22 23:56, David C. Rankin wrote:
All,
I saw a handful of Archlinux gpg errors in the journal and thought my
Just a small comment on WKD in case it's helpful - these have nothing to
do with any keyserver.
These are all timeout errors from WKD. WKD is gpg's Web Key Directory.
WKD provides different information than keyserver(s). It is implemented
by a special http lookup using the email holders domain. i.e. it has
nothing to do with any keyserver(s). It only works for email domains not
any key/ids.
e.g. WKD lookup on foo@xxxxxxx will ask dom.com webserver for a single
key which can be used to send encrypted email to foo@xxxxxxx. This is
quite different than what keyserver(s) do - it is provided by a
webserver running on the email domain for the email in question.
Timing out suggests a connectivity problem retrieving the answer from
foo.com web server - either the web server side for foo.com or your
internet side. If these are temporary, then they should be picked up at
a later run.
I'll leave the question whether those email addresses are all official
arch ones to others better equipped to check/know.
gene
