Key rejected by keyservers

[John Goerzen]

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> writes:

> The horowitz keyservers have major problems with keys which are little
> bit uncommon - hmmm, I wonder what's uncommon  with a subkey
> revocation.  They have messed up my key too.  keyserver.pgp.com does
> work fine.

Thanks guys.  I've contacted the mailing list for pksd and have
discovered that this bug has been known since 1999 apparently.  What
hapens is the code literally concatenates the binary data for all your
subkey signatures together into a single one and ignores all but one
subkey (they assume that each keypair has exactly one subkey and
exactly one subkey signature).  This results in, of course, major
mess.

I've found the problem in the code but fixing it is beyond my skill
level at the moment, unfortunately.  And alas, gnupg
--{send,recv}-keys doesn't work with keyserver.pgp.com.  In the
meantime, all the pgp.net servers have corrupted my key on them to the
point where it it useless for encryption!

-- John