[Announce] GnuPG 1.3.6 released (development)

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Sat May 22 22:59:52 CEST 2004


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On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 04:34:59PM -0400, Charly Avital wrote:

> >    * Preferred keyserver support has been added.  Users may set a
> >      preferred keyserver via the --edit-key command "keyserver".  If
> >      the --keyserver-option honor-keyserver-url is set (and it is by
> >      default), then the preferred keyserver is used when refreshing
> >      that key.
> 
> Setting that option in --edit-key command requires the secret key to be 
> available, and to enter the corresponding passphrase.

Yes.  The preferred keyserver is set on the self-signature (like the
other preferences) and so needs the secret key.  You don't want any
random person to be able to set your preferred keyserver.

David
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