Bug: Unusable key

Thomas Spuhler ThomasSpuhler at tusonix.com
Wed Feb 4 10:27:27 CET 2004


On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 10:04, Thomas Sjögren wrote:
> 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> 
I get:

gpg --search thomas at northernsecurity.net
gpg: searching for "thomas at northernsecurity.net" from HKP server
search.keyserver.net
gpg: [fd 3]: read error: Connection reset by peer
gpg: key "thomas at northernsecurity.net" not found on keyserver



> 
> /Thomas


Tom
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