Revocation problem with keyserver

[Brian M. Carlson]

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On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 04:43:11PM -0400, David Shaw wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 04:12:13AM +0200, Volker Gaibler wrote:
> > Hello!
> >=20
> > I wanted to change my encryption subkey and therefore revoke my old
> > subkey. I read the hints given in earlier questions but it doesn't=20
> > work.
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> [..]
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> > Can this be a keyserver problem or am I doing something awfully wrong?
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> This looks like a classic example of the "keyserver ate my key" bug.
> Most keyservers on the net today cannot deal with multiple subkeys and
> will respond by corrupting the key instead.
>=20
> Hopefully the new generation of keyservers will come along soon and
> solve this problem.  In the meantime, don't use the keyserver network
> to distribute your key.
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> David

It isn't necessary to not distribute your key. There are safe servers. They=
 are
ldap://horowitz.surfnet.nl:11370, which uses the PGP Certificate Server (it
does not accept ElGamal type 20 keys) and x-hkp://gnv.us.ks.cryptnet.net:11=
371,
which is running cksd.

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Brian M. Carlson
<karlsson@hal-pc.org>
OpenPGP: 0x351336B2DCA1913A

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