Under "X.509 Directory Services" you can add "key servers" for X.509 certificates (aka CMS certificates, vulgo S/MIME certificates). For OpenPGP only a single OpenPGP server can be entered. The suggestion is the Ubuntu key server because it is/was one of very few reliable key servers.

This is more a support request than a bug report. Please use the gpg4win forum in the future.

Is the lack of display of entries in the listbox proper functionality?

Why the limitation to a single OpenPGP keyserver?
And if such a limitation exists, the UI certainly did not tell the user
when attempting to add a second hkp:// URL

I am asking these from the issue/bug angle.

Thank you

I renamed the task accoringly.

My suggestion would be the following:

To avoid any confusions, I would create separate tabs for X.509 and for
OpenPGP. (like under Appearance or GnuPG)
Even a grouping for the OpenPGP keyserver part of settings is still
quite a subtle distinction.

A checkbox "do not user keyserver" with the described intent is ok, and
in the configuration page, the rest of the fields should be disabled
when unchecked.

On the other hand, the use of multiple OpenPGP keyservers should be
possible, but I guess this should go to a feature request.

Why the limitation to a single OpenPGP keyserver?

Because otherwise the UI will get confusing if you get the same key
e.g. from multiple keyservers And it is AFAIK a limitation of GnuPG.
We could use a keyserver with a DNS entry again which randomly selects
a keyserver? To avoid always using the same one.

Actually, when having multiple keyservers, the following would work:

• have multiple keyservers configured
• when uploading a key, have a dropdown list to select to which server

you want to upload

• when searching, have a dropdown list to select which server is queried.

(other scenarios of querying multiple keyservers would complicate things
significantly)

Rather then a user choice at action time, all these can be acomplished
at this time by manually changing the configuration between actions by
reconfiguring the single keyserver. But this is a much more cumbersome
way of doing it.

And if such a limitation exists, the UI certainly did not tell the
user
when attempting to add a second hkp:// URL

I am asking these from the issue/bug angle.

Yes, that should be fixed, too.

Thanks.

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tested with Gpg4win-Beta-75++

Looks like this now:

All done except giving a hint for a misconfigured ldapserver. But I did not encounter display of an empty line for an entry.
Should somebody encounter that issue, please open a new ticket with a description on how to reproduce this.