DBG messages in release and some bugs(?)

David Shaw dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Sun Dec 8 23:21:02 2002


On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 10:48:41PM +0100, 5468696A6D656E wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 03:35:22PM -0500, David Shaw wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Yes, 1.3.x does this.
> > > Can't use 1.3.x :-( Must use stable versions.
> > > 
> > > Is there a way to get the fingerprint on the --search-keys command?
> > > (it tried the obvious --with-fingerprint)
> > 
> > Yes and no.  --search-keys returns to the user whatever the keyserver
> > provides.  No current keyserver provides fingerprints, though the LDAP
> > servers at least provide long keyids.
> 
> Sorry, i misunderstand i think. Doesn't
> http://keyserver.kjsl.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&fingerprint=on&search=0x84321DED
> give a fingerprint?

Yes, but it's not part of the new machine-readable indexing feature in
the latest pksd.  I'm extremely reluctant to do even more fragile
parsing of HTML in GnuPG.  It's prone to failure enough already.

David

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