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GPG Services: Key Search Server Fail (All Servers)

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ryan

20 Oct, 2018 01:50 PM

Search servers not responding, details:

Please repeat your search and see if it works then. Should the problem persist, file a support request via System Preferences > GPG Suite > Send Report. Please copy the entire error message into the description field and add the search term you used for your query. We recommend to include the debug log, since that provides additional helpful information to solve your problem.

Details:
Search keys failed! (Server indicated a failure)
Code = 219
Error text:
gpg: error searching keyserver: Server indicated a failure
gpg: keyserver search failed: Server indicated a failure

Expected
To find existing keys

macOS                   10.14       18A391
GPG Suite               2018.4      2310    (bc31914)
GPG Mail                3.0         1328    (82e5a048)  30 trial days remaining
GPG Keychain            1.4.5       1496    (25530e6)
GPG Services            1.11.5      1033    (86cb937)
MacGPG                  2.2.10      921     (b487092)
GPG Suite Preferences   2.1.3       1057    (966febd)
Libmacgpg               0.8.6       885     (35a18be)
pinentry                0.9.7.1     9       (db18340)

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Steve on 21 Oct, 2018 11:10 AM

   

   Hi Ryan,

   the key servers have not been the most reliable in the past few weeks. Sadly they have been abused to share bittorrent magnet links. Not sure if that is the reason for the unreliable behavior.

   We are still investigating this and also reached out to one of the developers of the key server software.

   As a temporary workaround, could you retry using the sks key server cluster and if taht keeps failing, switch to the uni mainz key server in GPG Keychain > Preferences > Key Servers.

   Does the other server work?

   Best,
   Steve

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2. Steve closed this discussion on 14 Jun, 2019 03:37 PM.