abstract-key-server/README.md

abstract-key-server (aks)

Abstract key server (aks) is a minimal PGP key server to support communities. aks is a kind of read-only OpenPGP key server which is updated by some core administrators of a community. Those core administrators can add other trusted aks server to provide lookup of other keys via their server.

This is a work-in-progress to solve specific problems in security and information sharing communities.

Goals

• Minimal parsing of PGP packets (to reduce complexity and software dependencies)
• New keys are added via a specific vetted process (or at the discretion of the aks operator)
• AKS can connect to other trusted list to query unknown keys and there is no reconciliation protocol (by design)
• Standard HKP interface with add method disabled
• Simple interface to filter out known malicious or rogue PGP keys
• Fast and reliable
• Simple namespace to group keys in a set of known members (e.g. CSIRT, MISP sharing group, organisation)

Requirements

• ardb as storage back-end
• Python 3.6
• Pgpy
• redis python library
• Flask

Back-end format (ardb)

key type	key name	values
k/v	k:fingerprint	armored PGP key
set	n:namespace	set of fingerprints
set	un:uid-name	set of fingerprints
set	uc:uid-name	set of fingerprints
set	ue:uid-name	set of fingerprints

• un -> name in the UID
• uc -> comment in the UID
• ue -> email in the UID