Odd keyserver problem

[David Shaw]

On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 04:11:35PM +0100, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
> Albrecht Dreß wrote, On 11/19/2006 03:55 PM:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have an odd problem searching for a key on a HKP keyserver using GnuPG
> > 1.4.5.  Searching for a key using the mail address works fine (name &
> > address removed for privacy):
> 
> ... snip ...
> 
> > Using the http interface of the key server properly returns the key when
> > I enter the key id.  Using any other key server, I get the same
> > results.  I am pretty sure this /did/ work with earlier versions of
> > GnuPG.  Any idea what goes wrong here?
> > 
> 
> Generally when knowing the key ID you'd just use gpg --recv-key
> 0x7108E308 though.

This is true, but nevertheless people sometimes do --search-key on a
key ID (I'm not really sure why).  I have fixed this to work again for
the next release.

David