PGP -kc forgets a key, has corrupt output?
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I am reposting this from comp.security.pgp.tech, where my plea was met only
with stony silence.
Can someone here help? (Lars, do you know anything about this?)
I have read the pgp manpage and pgpdoc[12].txt files in their entirety, and
cannot figure out what the problem is.
Newsgroups: comp.security.pgp.tech
Subject: PGP -kc forgets a key, has corrupt output?
Date: 24 Jun 1997 13:05:01 GMT
Organization: Purdue University
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Sender: Branden Robinson <branden@cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu>
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Could someone enlighten me please?
I just recently signed the key of someone whose key is on my public
ring. pgp -kv on my public ring shows correct output, but pgp -kc makes
it appear that I have signed my own key twice, and leaves out the other
inidividual's information -- except for the fact that it recognizes his
signatures on my and other keys and expands it to his name.
I'm using pgp 2.6.3a from the pgp-us Debian package assembled by Lars
Wirzenius (moderator of comp.os.linux.announce, among other things).
Here is some sample output, edited for brevity.
[0] 205 apocalypse ~ > pgp -kvv | more
Pretty Good Privacy(tm) 2.6.3a - Public-key encryption for the masses.
(c) 1990-96 Philip Zimmermann, Phil's Pretty Good Software. 1996-03-04
Uses the RSAREF(tm) Toolkit, which is copyright RSA Data Security, Inc.
Distributed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Export of this software may be restricted by the U.S. government.
Current time: 1997/06/24 12:53 GMT
Key ring: '/home/branden/.pgp/pubring.pgp'
Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024/F6599E8D 1996/07/20 Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com>
[...]
pub 1024/D23450F9 1997/06/21 Branden Robinson <branden@purdue.edu>
sig D190E74D Terran Lane <terran@ecn.purdue.edu>
sig D23450F9 Branden Robinson <branden@purdue.edu>
pub 1024/D190E74D 1996/09/25 Terran Lane <terran@ecn.purdue.edu>
sig D23450F9 Branden Robinson <branden@purdue.edu>
sig C38884A5 (Unknown signator, can't be checked)
sig 20D3D431 (Unknown signator, can't be checked)
sig 914C58A9 (Unknown signator, can't be checked)
sig 47D738C1 (Unknown signator, can't be checked)
sig B29DE5FD (Unknown signator, can't be checked)
sig D7BD2F75 Timothy M. Stough <stough@ecn.purdue.edu>
sig 9C2A5CDD (Unknown signator, can't be checked)
sig FC0C02D5 Eugene H. Spafford <spaf@cs.purdue.edu>
sig D190E74D Terran Lane <terran@ecn.purdue.edu>
6 matching keys found.
As you see, my own key is next to last in this output, followed by Terran
Lane's, which I signed.
Now for the strange part.
[0] 206 apocalypse ~ > pgp -kc | more
Pretty Good Privacy(tm) 2.6.3a - Public-key encryption for the masses.
(c) 1990-96 Philip Zimmermann, Phil's Pretty Good Software. 1996-03-04
Uses the RSAREF(tm) Toolkit, which is copyright RSA Data Security, Inc.
Distributed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Export of this software may be restricted by the U.S. government.
Current time: 1997/06/24 12:56 GMT
Key ring: '/home/branden/.pgp/pubring.pgp'
Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024/F6599E8D 1996/07/20 Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com>
[...]
pub 1024/D23450F9 1997/06/21 Branden Robinson <branden@purdue.edu>
sig! D190E74D 1997/06/24 Terran Lane <terran@ecn.purdue.edu>
sig! D23450F9 1997/06/21 Branden Robinson <branden@purdue.edu>
sig! D23450F9 1997/06/24 Branden Robinson <branden@purdue.edu>
And Terran Lane's key, which I signed, is completely absent from this
output.
Is this a bug in 2.6.3a, am I misinterpreting this output, or has my public
ring become corrupted?
Please help. Apologies for not signing this message "correctly",
my newsreader does not integrate well with pgp.
Of course, pgp-signed or -encrypted mail is welcome.
- --
G. Branden Robinson
Purdue University
branden@purdue.edu
http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/
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