gpg strips '0x' on key searches...

[David Shaw]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 01:00:07PM -0800, Mark Atkinson wrote:
> For example, in v1.4.5 that I'm using:
> 
> gpg --keyserver hkp://pgpkeys.mit.edu --search-keys 0xCA6CDFB2
> 
> is translated to:
> 
> http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=index&options=mr&search=CA6CDFB2&exact=on
> 
> and fails.
> 
> where 
> 
> http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=index&options=mr&search=0xCA6CDFB2&exact=on
> 
> would work.   Is this the fault of gpg, or the key server?

It's in GPG.  You're quite right, and this is fixed for the next
release.

David