Re: [Sks-devel] wishlist for the web search results

[Yaron M. Minsky]

The patch generally looks reasonable, though I will take a closer look
soon.  One thing:  have you tested it against GPG?  I don't want to
break compatibility there.

y

On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 19:17, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Dec 2003, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 03 Dec 2003, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I noticed that SKS does not show the keytype when one searches for keys.
> > > It would be nice if SKS showed the keytypes of keys right after the bit
> > > size.  The characters used by GnuPG are
> > >   R       1       RSA
> > >   r       2       (RSA encrypt only)
> > >   s       3       (RSA sign only)
> > >   g       16      (ElGamal encrypt)
> > >   G       20      (ElGamal sign and encrypt)
> > >   D       17      (DSA)
> > > Using the same is the obvious choice.
> > 
> > Yaron, please check and apply this patch:
> > 
> > https://svn.clearairturbulence.org/debian-sks/trunk/sks/debian/patches/504_key_types
> > 
> > it adds a character to indicate the algorithm type right after the bitsize.
> 
> Maybe also this one, I think the separator make it a lot easier to read.
> 
> Compare
> http://keyserver-new.noreply.org:11371/pks/lookup?search=palfrader&fingerprint=on&op=index&op=mr
> with
> http://keyserver.noreply.org:11371/pks/lookup?search=palfrader&fingerprint=on&op=index&op=mr
> 
> Peter
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