Replacement subkeys

[David Shaw]

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On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 01:00:11AM +0100, Nick Lamb wrote:
> Once again I tried to actually use GnuPG for something, and was pretty
> much immediately stopped short by a problem.
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> Here you can see that I have created a new subkey for 1024D/741BE7D8
> and of course I have the public and private components on this local
> machine...
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> [njl98r@chef njl98r]$ gpg --list-keys njl98r
> pub  1024D/741BE7D8 1999-10-11 Nicholas Lamb <njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> uid                            Nicholas Lamb <njl195@zepler.org.uk>
> sub  1024g/427333F4 1999-10-11 [expires: 2000-11-09]
> sub  1024g/8458535B 2001-07-26 [expires: 2002-07-26]
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> It would be nice if other users could have this new subkey, so that when
> they send me mail it doesn't complain about the old, expired subkey
> So..
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> [njl98r@chef njl98r]$ gpg --send-keys 741BE7D8
> gpg: success sending to `wwwkeys.pgp.net' (status=3D200)
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> However it appears that either GnuPG never bothers to tell the server
> about the new subkey, or the server never bothers to record it. When
> I look at the key list on other people's systems (yes, from the same
> server after I updated it) the new subkey is missing.
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> What am I doing wrong? How do I make it do what I (obviously) intended?

You're doing it just right, and so is GnuPG.  There is, alas, a bug in
some of the HKP keyservers that makes them unable to handle keys with
multiple subkeys.

I'm afraid I don't know exactly *which* keyservers are buggy.
certserver.pgp.com is known good, but is not a HKP keyserver so you
need to use the web interface or my LDAP keyserver addition to GnuPG.
I believe pgp.dtype.org is good as well, and it's a HKP server.

David

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