An HKP server built on python.
Not meant for use in production! Do not use this in production!
To run this server, execute:
python3 server.py
By default this will bind to the loopback interface (127.0.0.1) and to port 11371.
If, instead, you want to bind to all interfaces on another port, you can do:
python3 server.py --address 0.0.0.0 --port 8080
Some gpg packages don't include a default configuration for dirmngr. This may cause the client to be unable to send or receive keys to the server.
In order to solve this, edit the file ~/.gnupg/dirmngr.conf and add the following line:
standard-resolver
Do be mindful that in certain environments, this may not be the desired behaviour. If you are unsure, please contact your network administrator or your IT supervisor before enabling this option.
This was developed in a classroom environment for a classroom environment: to share temporary keys generated by students amongst themselves, without contaminating or interfering with notable public keyservers.
Due to hardware restrictions, notable alternatives such as Hockeypuck or Hagrid were not suitable.
SKS's lack of post-systemd documentation (every single configuration document I read mentioned initscripts) made it unsuitable as well.