different fingeprint and uid after upload to keyserver

David Shaw dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Mon Jun 24 00:19:01 2002


On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 06:01:31PM -0400, Jason Harris wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 07:04:54PM +0200, Malte Gell wrote:
> 
> > I just had a very strange problem, after creating a new key and uploading it 
> > to wwwkeys.de.pgp.net I visited the site to check, whether everything is 
> > fine, but couldn't believe my eyes, the key on the server has a different 
> > KeyID and fingerprint !
> > 
> > The (correct) KeyID is 0xDEB97ECB and the fingerprint is
> > A87A B704 4D7D C829 0D8E  CE92 F6A6 4899 DEB9 7ECB
> 
> > Is this an error of the keyserver ?  [snip]
> 
> See /keyserver.html and /patches/ on my website (below) then access
> your key at the kjsl.com keyserver:
> 
> 	http://keyserver.kjsl.com:11371/

It is good that there is a fix for the keyid bug, but note that this
keyserver is not compatible with the --search-keys feature in GnuPG.

David

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