Which keyserver should I use?

Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder avbidder@fortytwo.ch
Wed Jul 23 09:41:02 2003


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On Tuesday 22 July 2003 22:28, Johan Wevers wrote:
> Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
> >One problem is that some people (anybody else but me?) use a subkey to
> > sign email. Currently, none of the keyservers support searching for
> > subkeys, so automatic key retrieval won't work.
>
> So that could be the isue. After a keyupdate I saw that the owner of key
> 0x13BC4F0F signed my ElGamal key, but I could not find that key on the
> servers and I've no idea who owns that key.

Hmm. I don't think that this is a subkey - to sign keys, AFAIK only the=20
primary can be used. Signing subkeys are only used to sign documents.

cheers
=2D- vbi

=2D-=20
NOTE: my email addresses in usenet postings change frequently!

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