Installation

To install we need to run the following command:

sudo apt-get install -y sks

Now we build the key database:

sudo sks build

And change the permissions for the sks user:

sudo chown -R debian-sks:debian-sks /var/lib/sks/DB

Next we need to make sks start from init, open up /etc/default/sks in your favourite editor and *initstart* to look like below:

initstart=yes

Now we can start the service with:

sudo /etc/init.d/sks start

Your keyserver will now be up and running on port 11371.

Web interface

We’ll need to create a web folder within sks with the following command:

sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/sks/www/

Change it’s permissions so the sks user can access it.

sudo chown -R debian-sks:debian-sks /var/lib/sks/www

And finally we need create a single HTML file for the interface, I have provided that …