How do I get encrypted transport to a keyserver?
Well, you need to first find a keyserver that will speak to you encrypted. The keyserver that we run, which is part of the SKS gossip pool, provides this transport (zimmerman.mayfirst.org). You will either need to do one of these methods: or recompile gnupg as described in Debian bug #519333. The hkps method has now been adopted by gnupg upstream (in version 1.4.10) so this step is no longer necessary. To actually use hkps, your would do the following: gpg –keyserver-options ca-cert-file=/tmp/mfpl.crt –keyserver hkps://zimmerman.mayfirst.org …