On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 08:17:47AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 07:11:27PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > creates a new one. For your local use, this is sufficient; but what is > > to be considered correct behavior in the case of a public keyserver? If > > someone uploads their key to a keyserver that already has their key, and > > the self-signatures differ, which one should take precedence? The > You can have as many self-signatures on your key as you like. Technically -- yes. This doesn't change the fact that either the keyserver wasn't letting him upload a second self-signature, or gpg wasn't letting people download it. > > In short: he tried that, and it didn't stick when he uploaded it to the > > keyservers. <shrug> > Did the people trying to use the new signature actually have the new > signature? Nope, that was the problem. A --recv-key from the keyserver would never pull down the new sig. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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