Curious about public keys and keyservers.

[David Shaw]

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On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:36:40AM -0400, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> >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.
> 
> OK: they are not quite the same, but why does theirs not quite agree?

[..]

> These guys seem to have it right (I pasted mine into their window), but 
> these guys
> hthttp://sks.dnsalias.net:11371/pks/lookup?search=whimsey&op=vindextp://sks.dnsalias.net:11371/pks/lookup?search=whimsey&op=vindex
> have it wrong; I uploaded it with
> 
> gpg --send-key Whimsey
> 
> 
> keyserver hkp://sks.dnsalias.net
> 
> is in my .gnupg/options file.
> 
> Could they both be right?
> 
> Is there a bug in gpg --send-key?

No.  There are many ways to represent OpenPGP keys.  They are
functionally identical, but differ in the actual bytes on disk.  It
doesn't matter.

David
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