I'm too lazy to look for it, but the key servers that made the sks pool are all gone.
$ dig pool.sks-keyservers.net A
; <<>> DiG 9.18.21 <<>> pool.sks-keyservers.net A
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 58853
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;pool.sks-keyservers.net. IN A
;; Query time: 1255 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Sun Feb 11 15:34:10 CET 2024
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 52
So all the tools that used to default to this won't work out of the box. For some reason, pgp.mit.edu is still up. I have not used it in ages, so I don't know if it is still worth something. There is no more a pool but one server as far as I can tell : https://keys.openpgp.org/.
I spend a quick 20 minutes updating tools I found on Github :
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I had a hard time finding the original source of caff. The best thing I found is https://wiki.debian.org/caff, but the wiki is outdated, the last tool listed doesn't exist, isn't maintained anymore. I'm no debian dev, so I didn't fix da wiki.
Same goes for https://help.riseup.net/en/gpg-best-practices which recommends to uses the sks pool. I'm no rise up user, so I didn't fix.
EDIT Someone pointed out on the fediverse that the SKS pool was still alive and that people could use the servers, see https://spider.pgpkeys.eu/ for details.
With that in Mind, maybe I should have done my PRs differently.
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