[Sks-devel] Re: Key strangeness

[David Shaw]

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:58:23AM -0500, David Shaw wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 07:22:09AM -0500, Yaron Minsky wrote:
> > Uh, some more info please?  I still don't quite understand the nature of
> > the problem.  Both keyids pull up (different) keys belonging to one
> > jeremy at durge.org.  And one of them looks very much like the other with its
> > primary key packet replaced.  But they are both there, at least on
> > sks.dnsalias.net.  So I don't quite understand in what way SKS is supposed
> > to have malfunctioned.
> 
> Last night, I requested key 0x3A546EC2 from sks.keyserver.penguin.de.
> The armored key blob that the server sent turned out to be key
> 0x7EDB7A47.
> 
> In short, if I request 0x7EDB7A47, I get 0x7EDB7A47.  If I request
> 0x3A546EC2, I still get 0x7EDB7A47.  The 0x7EDB7A47 I do get looks
> like it has the self-sigs from 0x3A546EC2.
> 
> I just tried it again, with the same results from sks.dnsalias.net.
> This is likely not a SKS-specific problem, as pgp.mit.edu (running
> pksd) does the same thing.

Recent update: some new valid self-sigs for and on 0x7EDB7A47 just
showed up on sks.dnsalias.net.  Requesting 0x3A546EC2 still brings up
0x7EDB7A47 though.

David