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   On 03/01/2020 12:27 p.m., Wilfred van Velzen : August Abolins wrote:   
      
    AA>> I think my old public key is still out there. (I have not   
    AA>> really looked for it though. I don't remember the servers I   
    AA>> used.)   
      
   The one at MIT (which sounds like where I would have submitted my key) but   
   fails with this:   
      
     --[begin]--   
     Proxy Error   
      
     The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream	server.   
     The proxy server could not handle the request GET /pks/lookup.   
      
     Reason: Error reading from remote server   
     --[end]--   
      
   I didn't expect that from the great MIT.   
      
      
    WvV> Afaik most key-servers are connected to each other these days,   
    WvV> and exchange keys on a regular basis. So if your key is out   
    WvV> there, it might be "everywhere".   
      
   Yes.. I notice that keys are now pooled and distributed to other servers.   
   Things have certainly changed since I first started with PGP in the 90's.   
      
   I looked with a few listed here: https://sks-keyservers.net/status/   
      
      
    WvV> When I search for "abolins" on my (default) key-server it finds   
    WvV> 27 keys as old as from 1994. But none include a mention   
    WvV> of "august".   
      
   Are they *all* from 1994?   1994 sounds about right when I actually submitted   
   to a server.  I found about the same number of references to abolins as you at   
   a few random servers from the sks link above. I am surprised that I wouldn't   
   have included my FN.   I wonder if the last entry in one of those searches   
   could be it!   
      
   pub   512R/246249F7 1994-02-16   
      
   The DATE and bit size certainly looks right.  1994 is about the last time I   
   actually used pgp. And, I am pretty sure the key signature was small before I   
   learned about the benefits of larger ones.   
      
      
    AA>> The private key is probably still on a 3S diskette, somewhere.   
      
    WvV> I have a lot of them still around (mainly Amiga formatted).   
    WvV> Haven't tried them in a few decades, and it would surprise me   
    WvV> if they are still readable.   
      
      
   This is what I did with a bunch of 3 1/2 diskettes a few years ago:   
      
      http://kolico.ca/fidonet/echos/win95/index.html#diskettes   
      
      
      
   As an aside: I like the "status" page at https://sks-keyservers.net/status/   
      
   It would be fun to see a similar live version of something like that for the   
   modest 900 IP nodes.   ..But I digress.   
      
   Cheers!   
    ../|ug   
      
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