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AnarchistCommunist

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Registered: 2025-08-18

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PGP Keyservers config [SOLVED]

There is no line beginning with

keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com

in

/etc/pacman.d/gnupg/
~/.gnupg/
/root/.gnupg/

.
However, when running

gpg --refresh-keys (or something else related to keyservers)

, GnuPG pulls from hkps://keyserver.ubuntu.com.
Why does GnuPG do that? Is this normal?

Last edited by AnarchistCommunist (2025-12-07 07:02:16)

lmn

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Registered: 2021-05-09

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Re: PGP Keyservers config [SOLVED]

The source release of GnuPG sets the default keyserver during building to the Ubuntu keyserver.

If no keyserver is explicitly configured, dirmngr will use the
built-in default of ‘https://keyserver.ubuntu.com’.  To avoid the
use of a default keyserver the value ‘none’ can be used.

So this behavior seems correct.
Later Versions will to set it to none.