send-keys does not update my key

Peter Lebbing peter at digitalbrains.com
Mon Feb 13 12:16:40 CET 2017


On 12/02/17 13:32, Marko Bauhardt wrote:
> Hi,
> The amor definition of my public key i uploaded
> to hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net differs to the public key
> definition i uploaded to another web service.

An OpenPGP public key is composed of many parts which can be reordered
without changing the meaning. Keyservers do reorder stuff, so you can't
just compare two keys byte by byte and say anything useful about their
equivalence.

A command like

$ gpg2 --list-options show-unusable-subkeys,show-unusable-uids
--list-sigs [KEYID]

gives a pretty good overview of a public key. Here is what is on the
keyserver for you:

> pub   rsa4096 2015-08-16 [C]
>       DC0FE85182A372E37FE1ACDB970CFD4753192101
> uid           [  full  ] Marko Bauhardt - marko.bauhardt at mailbox.org -
> sig 3        970CFD4753192101 2015-08-16  Marko Bauhardt - marko.bauhardt at mailbox.org -
> sig 3        970CFD4753192101 2017-02-06  Marko Bauhardt - marko.bauhardt at mailbox.org -
> sig 3        970CFD4753192101 2015-08-16  Marko Bauhardt - marko.bauhardt at mailbox.org -
> uid           [  full  ] Marko Bauhardt (Datameer GmbH) - mb at datameer.com -
> sig 3        970CFD4753192101 2017-02-06  Marko Bauhardt - marko.bauhardt at mailbox.org -
> sub   rsa4096 2015-08-16 [S] [expired: 2016-08-15]
> sig          970CFD4753192101 2015-08-16  Marko Bauhardt - marko.bauhardt at mailbox.org -
> sub   rsa4096 2015-08-16 [E] [expired: 2016-08-15]
> sig          970CFD4753192101 2015-08-16  Marko Bauhardt - marko.bauhardt at mailbox.org -
> sub   rsa4096 2015-08-16 [A] [expired: 2016-08-15]
> sig          970CFD4753192101 2015-08-16  Marko Bauhardt - marko.bauhardt at mailbox.org -
> sub   rsa4096 2017-01-28 [S] [expires: 2018-01-28]
> sig          970CFD4753192101 2017-01-28  Marko Bauhardt - marko.bauhardt at mailbox.org -
> sub   rsa4096 2017-01-28 [E] [expires: 2018-01-28]
> sig          970CFD4753192101 2017-01-28  Marko Bauhardt - marko.bauhardt at mailbox.org -
> sub   rsa4096 2017-01-28 [A] [expires: 2018-01-28]
> sig          970CFD4753192101 2017-01-28  Marko Bauhardt - marko.bauhardt at mailbox.org -
> 

I've changed your e-mail address so web spam scrapers can't take it
easily. If you see all the components there really are on your key
reflected in this output, then the keyserver is already fully up to date
and any further sending of your key will not change it any further.

HTH,

Peter.

-- 
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You can send me encrypted mail if you want some privacy.
My key is available at <http://digitalbrains.com/2012/openpgp-key-peter>



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