Key corruption: duplicate signatures and usage flags

martin f krafft madduck at madduck.net
Fri Jun 23 06:55:15 CEST 2017


also sprach MFPA <2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-groups at riseup.net> [2017-06-23 00:33 +0200]:
> I didn't know you could remove a usage flag once the key was on the
> keyservers.

Well, it somehow seems to work, apart from the fact that gnupg first
needs to clean up the key (using --edit-key) after downloading the
modified version from the keyservers.

> And I thought GnuPG would automatically sign with a valid signing
> subkey if there was one.

It does this independently, yes.

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