pks

SYNOPSIS

An invite-only-model public key server.

DESCRIPTION

SERVER SPECIFICATION

Keys are stored in certificates. A certificate has some meta data that describes a key.

A server should

• Without auth
  • Responsd with a certificate when queried with a public key
• With auth
  • Store a certificate
• Replicate in a Master/Master Scenario according to any known servers in its database
• Provide a list of up to 5 of the most recently successful servers that it has replicated to
• Run on port 11372 (the next port after a well known port for the openPGP key server)

CERTIFICATE DEFINITION

{
  'address-at': '[e-mail]',
  'servers-at': ['async.ly', 'ghub.io'],
  'public': '...',
  'algorithm': 'rsa'
}