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# abstract-key-server (aks)
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Abstract key server (aks) is a minimal PGP key server to support communities. aks is a kind of
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read-only OpenPGP key server which is updated by some core administrators of a community. Those
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core administrators can add other trusted aks server to provide lookup of other keys via their server.
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This is a work-in-progress to solve specific problems in security and information sharing communities.
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## Goals
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- Minimal parsing of PGP packets (to reduce complexity and software dependencies)
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- New keys are added via a specific vetted process (or at the discretion of the aks operator)
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- AKS can connect to other trusted list to query unknown keys and there is no reconciliation protocol (by design)
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- Standard HKP interface with `add` method disabled
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- Simple interface to filter out known malicious or rogue PGP keys
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- Fast and reliable
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# Requirements
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- [ardb](https://github.com/yinqiwen/ardb) as storage back-end
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- Python 3.6
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