key-keyserver problem?

Jason Harris jharris@widomaker.com
Tue Jul 16 06:31:01 2002


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On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 11:48:46PM -0400, David Shaw wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 11:19:19PM -0400, Psy-Kosh wrote:
>=20
> >     Hello, seems hkp servers don't like my key, but ldap (at least
> > pgp.surfnet.nl) do. The web based servers have either mangled my
> > current key, not representing the keyid properly, or just plain
> > reject it now. Interestingly enough, even on surfnet, if one checks
> > it for my key by ldap, it will give it, but by web, just gives an
> > older, revoked key of mine, and denies the current one. When I try
> > sending it to the web based servers through the websites, I get some
> > sort of error about it being corrupted or something, even though gpg
> > itself is perfectly happy about it. Is there a prob with my key, with
> > gpg, am I doing something wrong, or is there a keyserver bug causing
> > this? (or none of the above. :)
>=20
> Do you have a v4 RSA key (that is a RSA key generated with GnuPG, or a
> fairly recent version of PGP?)  The LDAP keyserver on pgp.surfnet.nl
> handles these properly, but the HKP keyservers (including the HKP
> keyserver pn pgp.surfnet.nl) do not.

This looks like the key (fetched from ldap://pgp.surfnet.nl:11370) (but
shouldn't GPG report the signature (on the signed list message) was made
by 71AD88B3 instead of reporting 401EDF13 - Psy-Kosh, did you sign
the message with a standalone version of 401EDF13?):

pub  4096R/71AD88B3 2002-07-07 Psy-Kosh (*wavies*) <psykosh@earthlink.net>
     Key fingerprint =3D C8A7 12CD 979D 6894 6522  D3CD 39A6 DB9B 71AD 88B3
sig 3       71AD88B3 2002-07-07   Psy-Kosh (*wavies*) <psykosh@earthlink.ne=
t>
sub  1024R/D28E0B4F 2002-07-07 [expires: 2003-01-05]
rev         71AD88B3 2002-07-10   Psy-Kosh (*wavies*) <psykosh@earthlink.ne=
t>
sig         71AD88B3 2002-07-09   Psy-Kosh (*wavies*) <psykosh@earthlink.ne=
t>
sig         71AD88B3 2002-07-07   Psy-Kosh (*wavies*) <psykosh@earthlink.ne=
t>
sub  1024R/27B41668 2002-07-07 [expires: 2003-01-05]
rev         71AD88B3 2002-07-10   Psy-Kosh (*wavies*) <psykosh@earthlink.ne=
t>
sig         71AD88B3 2002-07-09   Psy-Kosh (*wavies*) <psykosh@earthlink.ne=
t>
sig         71AD88B3 2002-07-07   Psy-Kosh (*wavies*) <psykosh@earthlink.ne=
t>
sig         71AD88B3 2002-07-07   Psy-Kosh (*wavies*) <psykosh@earthlink.ne=
t>
sub  1024R/401EDF13 2002-07-10 [expires: 2002-10-08]
sig         71AD88B3 2002-07-10   Psy-Kosh (*wavies*) <psykosh@earthlink.ne=
t>
sub  1024R/213A22BD 2002-07-10 [expires: 2002-10-08]
sig         71AD88B3 2002-07-10   Psy-Kosh (*wavies*) <psykosh@earthlink.ne=
t>

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Jason Harris          | NIC:  JH329, PGP:  This _is_ PGP-signed, isn't it?
jharris@widomaker.com | web:  http://jharris.cjb.net/

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