subkey lookups (was Re: newbie question about identities)

Jason Harris jharris@widomaker.com
Fri Oct 3 22:15:02 CEST 2003


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On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 07:15:39PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:

> On Friday 03 Oct 2003 10:14 am, Stewart V. Wright wrote:
> > --fingerprint' remains constant, but you can change ids.  Take my key
> > for example.  I have 4 different ids and at least 2 of them will not
>=20
> Which makes 0xb3334559 difficult to retrieve sometimes. It took a little=
=20
> searching before I could find it to verify a signature declared initially=
 as=20
> 0x35DB7472 which is a subkey.
>=20
> http://sks.dnsalias.net:11371/pks/lookup?search=3DStewart+V.+Wright&op=3D=
vindex
> and then searching for 35DB7472.

(UIDs !=3D subkeys, but) you obviously haven't tried this recently:

  %gpg -v --keyserver keyserver.kjsl.com --recv-key 35DB7472

:)  See also:

  http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2003-September/020160.html

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