GPG key not fully accepted by public key servers

[Stefan H. Holek]

On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 lewis@sistina.com wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 04:01:39PM -0600, Brian Minton wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 02:32:16PM -0600, lewis@sistina.com wrote:
> > > Key block corrupt: more than one signature on subk
> > 
> > what happens when you do gpg --export 00292648 |gpg --list-packets ?
> 

You have to examine the key *returned* from the keyserver. Gpg will not
import such a key, but you can download and then export it with pgp or
cut & paste it from the web interface.

You will see something like this 
(two subkeys and only one binding signature):

$ gpg --list-packets test.asc 
:public key packet:
        version 4, algo 17, created 976788814, expires 0
        pkey[0]: [1024 bits]
        pkey[1]: [160 bits]
        pkey[2]: [1024 bits]
        pkey[3]: [1024 bits]
:user ID packet: "Testinger <test@test.org>"
:signature packet: algo 17, keyid 6EF5D2F9EF2AF055
        version 4, created 976788814, md5len 0, sigclass 10
        digest algo 2, begin of digest bb a4
        hashed subpkt 2 len 5 (sig created 2000-12-14)
        hashed subpkt 9 len 5 (key expires after 5y1d0h0m)
        hashed subpkt 11 len 5 (pref-sym-algos: 3 2 1 10)
        hashed subpkt 25 len 2 (primary user ID)
        hashed subpkt 27 len 5 (key flags: 03 00 00 00)
        subpkt 16 len 9 (issuer key ID 6EF5D2F9EF2AF055)
        data: [155 bits]
        data: [158 bits]
:public sub key packet:
        version 4, algo 16, created 976748400, expires 0
        pkey[0]: [2048 bits]
        pkey[1]: [2 bits]
        pkey[2]: [2046 bits]
:public sub key packet:
        version 4, algo 16, created 1008284400, expires 0
        pkey[0]: [2048 bits]
        pkey[1]: [2 bits]
        pkey[2]: [2045 bits]
:signature packet: algo 17, keyid 6EF5D2F9EF2AF055
        version 4, created 976790552, md5len 0, sigclass 18
        digest algo 2, begin of digest bd c7
        hashed subpkt 2 len 5 (sig created 2000-12-14)
        hashed subpkt 9 len 5 (key expires after 1y0d0h0m)
        hashed subpkt 27 len 5 (key flags: 0C 00 00 00)
        subpkt 16 len 9 (issuer key ID 6EF5D2F9EF2AF055)
        data: [160 bits]
        data: [159 bits]

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