Re: [Sks-devel] multiple subkey binding

[Yaron M. Minsky]

Nope.  Cleaning fixes various problems, but the multiple subkey problem
can only be fixed with cryptographic support, which SKS doesn't have. 
(It is possible that a good-enough fix could be achived without
cryptographic support, but I haven't looked into it in detail.)

Functionally, though, the only problem of including the bogus packets is
an increase in size and the annoying messages you saw.  So it's not a
huge win to include that key-fixing.  

Yaron

On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 06:44, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Dec 2003, Yaron M. Minsky wrote:
> 
> > > I wonder if the 'multiple subkey binding' thing is SKS's fault?
> > I believe not.  There is a bug in some versions of PKS that mangle the
> > subkeys.  SKS keeps both the good and the bad, so you end up with lots
> > of keys with too many subkey binding packets.  Hence the message you
> > see.
> 
> Hmm ok.  I thought sks would 'clean' those keys.
> 
> Peter
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