Curious about public keys and keyservers.

[David Shaw]

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On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 07:20:03AM -0400, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> 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.

Are you sure they are the same all the way through?  It's easy to miss
a few digit differences in the middle of a long armor block.

David
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iD8DBQE/AuLm4mZch0nhy8kRAjQ1AKCvL4JCgYejJ5XFJyG8NmGWJOmYewCfYQH0
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=f6eo
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