restoring a key

disastry@saiknes.lv disastry@saiknes.lv
Thu Oct 25 19:45:01 2001


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David Shaw wrote:
> > I doub't it is even possible (I have not tested however).
> > RFC probably allows multiple subkey binding signatures (I'm not sure),
> > but gpg does not handle 'em well.
> 
> It is possible, the RFC does allow it,
ok

> and gpg handles it just fine.

no it does not.

for example get my key from keyserver and import it into gpg - only one
subkey will be imported, but the key have 2 ones.
that's because keyserver have somehow copied binding sig from one subkey to other
and now that subkey have two sigs - one valid other not.

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