struggling with potential keyid conflicts

[Jason Harris]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 01:13:54PM -0500, David Shaw wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 11:36:06AM -0500, Jim Hurd wrote:
 
> > Do you know where keyservers are with this issue? I tried:
> > 
> > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key  0x5BD18B6A42B9247EF79214B7F87A2B53DEADBEEF
> > 
> > And it gives the same result as
> > 
> > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key  0xDEADBEEF

> It's the keyserver.  GnuPG gives the whole fingerprint to the
> keyserver, and the keyserver handles it as it sees fit (which
> generally means to truncate it to the lowest 32 bits).

:)  hkp:// URLs are still using the short keyids:

%gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 1.2.4
[snip]

%gpg --recv-key 0x5BD18B6A42B9247EF79214B7F87A2B53DEADBEEF
gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory!
gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more information
gpg: requesting key DEADBEEF from keyserver.kjsl.com
gpg: request is "x-hkp://keyserver.kjsl.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xDEADBEEF"
gpg: key DEADBEEF: accepted non self-signed user ID 'Preston Wilson <pres at palmjunkie.com>'
gpg: key DEADBEEF: public key "Imad R. Faiad" imported
gpg: key DEADBEEF: accepted non self-signed user ID 'Imad R. Faiad'
gpg: key DEADBEEF: public key "Preston Wilson <pres at palmjunkie.com>" imported
gpg: key DEADBEEF: accepted non self-signed user ID 'Prime Rib Lovers'
gpg: key DEADBEEF: public key "Prime Rib Lovers" imported
gpg: key DEADBEEF: public key "Imad R. Faiad" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 4
gpg:               imported: 4  (RSA: 2)

-- 
Jason Harris          | NIC:  JH329, PGP:  This _is_ PGP-signed, isn't it?
jharris at widomaker.com | web:  http://keyserver.kjsl.com/~jharris/
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