Curious about public keys and keyservers.

[Jean-David Beyer]

I recently tried to upload my public key, and it seems to have worked.

But when I did:

valinux:jdbeyer[~]$ gpg --export --armor Whimsey

I got:

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux)

mQGiBDusCNwRBAC3+jP8KebZBtVvVJs5NG9EhAmPDEzToMF/RfKe2J9AMbm8ckn3
[snip]
pgmsXaK9wirCAuTofwsAwv38dg==
=dIrq
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

I then uploaded it and the keyservers have:

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: SKS 1.0.4

mQGiBDusCNwRBAC3+jP8KebZBtVvVJs5NG9EhAmPDEzToMF/RfKe2J9AMbm8ckn3aLoFre1B
[snip]
wirCAuTofwsAwv38dg==
=73sB
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Everything except the =dIrq and the =73sB at the end is the same.

I would like assurance that this is OK, and also I would like to 
understand the difference.

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