Does anyone know the id of the Keyserver? - whilst key lookup works satisfactorily in eM Client, I occasionally need to use a Linux machine and Thunderbird (as EMC doesn’t work under WINE). It would be extremely useful to be able to specify the target keyserver to be the EMC one so everything is consistent.
Thunderbird won’t be able to use eM Keybook.
Any reason why not? They state it’s a public key server?
Failing that, is there any non eM Client that can access the public keys?
Ok, I now see that keys.openpgp.org is now a possible upload destination … but the verification mechanism doesn’t work. I get a reply from the server asking me to click a link to verify the certificate upload, but it’s not acknowledged in the management page of EMC, so it always displays in red … unlike uploads to the inhouse server.
It’s also worth mentioning that the keys.openpgp.org keyserver doesn’t play well with other open keyservers … unlike (eg) keys.gnupg.net … to which I’ve exported my EMC certificate (via Kleopatra) and which then appears on (eg) keyserver.ubuntu.com - how do I know? … because after uploading to the gnupg keyserver last night, it appears on the ubuntu keyserver, but not the openpgp keyserver this morning - so something the devs might want to consider changing for future versions, as (experienced) linux, mac and other windows users are more likely to use keyservers that replicate across the network rather than one that is standalone. Using the latter strikes me as a poor design decision.
When we introduced eM Keybook, there were no public key server, that supported validation (via email), so eM Keybook is a proprietary service, as there were no standards for thet. Keys.openpgp.org was introduced later, so we’ve added a support for that one. We are not running the server so we are not responsible for any issues or outages. We may retest it, but that’s the only thing we can do, it is ou of our control. We don’t want to support public key lookup services that don’t support validation as we consider these as a security threat.
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