Garbled data in keyservers

Wiktor Kwapisiewicz wiktor at metacode.biz
Wed Dec 5 12:23:52 CET 2018


Hi Claudio,

You may find these SKS issues relevant:

https://bitbucket.org/skskeyserver/sks-keyserver/issues/41
https://bitbucket.org/skskeyserver/sks-keyserver/issues/57
https://bitbucket.org/skskeyserver/sks-keyserver/issues/60

I'm not able to comment on the specifics of search implementation in SKS though...

Kind regards,
Wiktor

On 05.12.2018 10:31, Claudio Canavese wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I'm experiencing a strange behavior when looking for my email address on
> many keyserver web interfaces: I get al lot of garbled output from a key
> of someone else.
>
> I can't find and answer in this mailing list archives, so I decided to
> ask directly. Forgive me if it's a silly question.
>
> How to test this:
> 1) pick any keyserver, I tried  https://pgp.mit.edu/ ,
> https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/ , http://pool.sks-keyservers.net
> 2) search any key but mine by email: works? Well, so it was for me
> 3) now try with this email address
>
> On pool.sks-keyservers.net eveything works well while on other
> keyservers I get 47Mb of garbled data from Yegor Timoshenko key, which I
> never signed and I don't know exactly why it's included in search
> results. I had to use wget to download the web page since any browser
> will crash.
>
> Is this a bug I should submit somewhere? 
> Can a key break the html output of a keyserver?
>
>
> Thanks you for your time ;-)
>
>
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