Update of key impossible due to duplicate ID

[Christian Biere]

Hi,


I've tried to ask the guys who run pgpkeys.mit.edu about this issue
but got no reply. The same problem occurs with other servers that
run the same keyserver software. Is this an issue with GnuPG itself
or a bug in the keyserver software? Anyone who uses these servers
to get update for my public key from these servers, won't get one.

Here's my problem:

I've tried to update my public key at pgpkeys.mit.edu several times
but it always returns a broken(?) key with a "duplicate ID". The
keyserver at blackhole.pca.dfn.de doesn't have this problem.

#
# Retrieving the key from blackhole.pca.dfn.de works:
#
$ gpg --recv-key 7A3220C7
gpg: requesting key 7A3220C7 from hkp server blackhole.pca.dfn.de
gpg: key 7A3220C7: public key "Christian Biere <christianbiere at gmx.de>" imported
gpg: 3 marginal(s) needed, 1 complete(s) needed, classic trust model
gpg: depth: 0  valid:   1  signed:   0  trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 1u
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1
$ gpg --fingerprint 7A3220C7
pub   1024D/7A3220C7 2002-04-10 [expires: 2006-01-05]
      Key fingerprint = D952 6F9B 37E4 801A 5F9E  79AE D0A4 22C7 7A32 20C7
uid                  Christian Biere <christianbiere at gmx.de>
sub   2048R/18F1C2E1 2003-11-17 [expires: 2006-01-05]

#
# Retrieving the key from pgpkeys.mit.edu causes a warning:
#
$ gpg --keyserver x-hkp://pgpkeys.mit.edu --recv-key 7A3220C7
gpg: requesting key 7A3220C7 from hkp server pgpkeys.mit.edu
gpg: key 7A3220C7: duplicated user ID detected - merged
gpg: key 7A3220C7: public key "Christian Biere <christianbiere at gmx.de>" imported
gpg: 3 marginal(s) needed, 1 complete(s) needed, classic trust model
gpg: depth: 0  valid:   1  signed:   0  trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 1u
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1

#
#  The sub key is missing:
#
$ gpg --fingerprint 7A3220C7
pub   1024D/7A3220C7 2002-04-10 [expires: 2006-01-05]
      Key fingerprint = D952 6F9B 37E4 801A 5F9E  79AE D0A4 22C7 7A32 20C7
uid                  Christian Biere <christianbiere at gmx.de>


-- 
Christian
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