Allowing import of pubkeys without User ID

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Thu Jan 12 21:11:34 CET 2023


On Thu, 12 Jan 2023 12:24, Andrew Gallagher said:

> associated personal information to those who do not. Bare revocations
> may not be sufficent, as these will only be searchable via the primary
> key fingerprint, whereas keys are often searched for by a subkey
> fingerprint (e.g. to validate sigs).

That is not a problem because you need to get the primary key anyway
before you can use a subkey (because of the subkey binding signature).


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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