[Sks-devel] [Fwd: Re: pgp.mit.edu upgrading to SKS]

[John Clizbe]

Bug report from Werner Koch from a discussion on GnuPG-Devel

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: pgp.mit.edu upgrading to SKS
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:00:23 +0200
From: Werner Koch <address@hidden>
To: John Clizbe <address@hidden>
References: <address@hidden>
<address@hidden> <address@hidden>

On Thu,  2 Jul 2009 21:18, address@hidden said:
> Werner Koch wrote:
>> On Thu,  2 Jul 2009 15:42, address@hidden said:
>> 
>>> It might be of more than passing interest to readers of this list to
>>> know that pgp.mit.edu migrated from PKS 0.9.6 to SKS 1.1.0 today.
>> 
>> Really great.  This should finally fix one of the major problems with
>> the keyservers.
>> 
>> Now lets see whether the minor SKS bugs will be fixed ;-)
>
> which bugs would those be?

  $ gpg2 --search-keys 'Werner Koch'
  gpg: searching for "Werner Koch" from hkp server keys.gnupg.net
[.. skipping a lot of Werner Kochs etc ...]
  (14)    Werner Koch <address@hidden>
          Werner Koch (mein alter key) <address@hidden>
            768 bit RSA key 0C9857A5, created: 1995-09-30 (revoked)
  (15)    Werner Koch
          Werner Koch
          Pat Thoyts [...]
          Pat Thoyts [...]
          Pat Thoyts [...]
          Pat Thoyts [...]
          Pat Thoyts [...]
          Pat Thoyts [...]
            1024 bit RSA key F084E489, created: 1995-04-11
  Keys 10-15 of 15 for "Werner Koch".  Enter number(s), N)ext, or Q)uit >

(I removed some email addresses)
It is often the last key which is made up of a real key and UIDs of
another key.  I figured that out when I added the external key search
feature to gpgme.  If you look at the latest KDE Kleopatra from SVN you
will always see tehse bodus user ids.

It is not a GPG bug - I checked the network traffic.  Happens with all
SKS servers.

Feel free to forward.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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