RIPEM Key Server Protocol

Mark Riordan   12 June 1992

Requests are made to the server by clients.  Each request is
responded to by the server.  
The syntax --> is used to describe requests made by a client.
The syntax <-- is used to describe replies from the server.

--> LOOKUP     name

  <-- KEYIS    name,preferred_name,key

  <-- REDIRECT name,server_name

  <-- NOTFOUND name


--> ADD        name,key

  <-- REGOK    name

  <-- DUP      name


--> REPLACE    name,signed_token,newkey

  <-- REPLACED name,newkey

  <-- BADSIG   name,signed_token

  <-- ADDED    name,newkey


--> DELETE     name,signed_token

  <-- DELETED  name

  <-- BADSIG   name,signed_token

  <-- NOSUCH   name