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+# Verifying Key Server API for Java
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+Client-side API for fetching keys from - and publishing keys to Verifying OpenPGP Key Servers (VKS).
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+An example implementation of a Verifying Key Server is [Hagrid](https://gitlab.com/hagrid-keyserver/hagrid), which is running https://keys.openpgp.org.