Maybe I am just stupid

[Stefan H. Holek]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Colin wrote:

> Last night I sent a signed message to someone and they told me they were
> unable to find my key on a keyserver (http://keyserver.pgp.net). So I put my
> key up on this server and did a search for it. If I search under my email
> address (or part thereof) I can find my key fine but if I enter the 8 digit
> key that comes with a signed message who's user is not on my keyring then I
> find nothing. I assume that the 8 digits I send on a signed message are
> '8BBEA7F4' (correct me please if I am wrong) and if I do a search for this on
> the keyserver it again says 'no match'.
> If I see the below in a message
> Message was signed by unknown key ID C37FC139
> then do I not do a search for the 8 digit code on the keyserver to verify the
> key and the user?

Search for 0x8BBEA7F4 
Note the prefixed '0x' (zero-ex), the keyservers require this

HTH,
Stefan