Bug: Unusable key

Thomas Sjögren thomas at northernsecurity.net
Wed Feb 4 18:04:44 CET 2004


On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 09:51:25AM -0700, Thomas Spuhler wrote:
> The second questions Thomas, you list in plain text GPG KeyID: 114AA85C
> which can be found on a public key server, but then your actual
> signature on your e-mail has ID BBA8F8F5 and that one cannot be found on
> a public keyserver. 

It's because BBA8F8F5 is the id of my signing subkey.

> After downloading your signature with ID 114AA85C,
> GnuPG is able to read your signature that contains ID BBA8F8F5
> Why is that?

Because its a subkey, included in my publc key with id 114aa85c.

> If you would not have listed it in plain text, I would never have found
> it.

Well, the subkey is included in my public key and the public key is
available on public keyserver, my website and in the  x-headers of the
mails i send out. 
If you have trouble finding a key, try gpg --search <email address> 

/Thomas
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== thomas at northernsecurity.net | thomas at se.linux.org
== Encrypted e-mails preferred | GPG KeyID: 114AA85C
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