[Sks-devel] key too large?

[David Shaw]

On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 01:12:10AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, David Shaw wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 12:32:39AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> > > On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I wonder if my key is too large for SKS to like:
> > > > 
> > > > weasel at galaxy:~$ gpg --send 94c09c7f 
> > > > gpg: sending key 94C09C7F to hkp server keyserver.noreply.org
> > > > gpgkeys: HTTP post error 22: url returned error 500
> > > > gpgkeys: no KEY 94c09c7f END found
> > > > gpg: keyserver internal error
> > > > gpg: keyserver send failed: keyserver error
> > > > 
> > > > If so, maybe we could patch SKS to allow larger keys?
> > > 
> > > *sigh*
> > > 
> > > Actually this appears to be a GnuPG problem?
> > 
> > Version?  At least for the recent code, It's very hard to see how you
> > got that error.  The code just doesn't flow that way.
> 
> gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.4-cvs, looks like a snapshot built around April 5th,
> probably r4114.
> 
> I don't see the problem on a different host with what is quite likely
> r4189.

There are no meaningful changes in gpgkeys_hkp between those two
revisions.  Can you reproduce this with --keyserver-options
"use-temp-files keep-temp-files" and send me the temp file?

David