Keyservers and subkeys

David Shaw dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Tue Jul 15 23:51:04 2003


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On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 09:24:20PM +0200, Johan Parin wrote:

> gpg: keyring `/data/gnupg/nytest.gpg' created
> gpg: key FC7A4EF0: invalid subkey binding
> gpg: key FC7A4EF0: public key "Johan Parin <johan.parin@abc.se>" imported
> gpg: Total number processed: 1
> gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
>=20
> "invalid subkey binding" - what's this? Should I worry?

No.  This is just another example of just how broken the PGP keyserver
situation is.  Even the few servers that don't actively cause harm
still synchronize with servers that do, so this sort of nonsense is
unfortunately common.

David

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