Re: keyring.debian.org & pgp.net
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, John Goerzen wrote:
> I discovered this week that the pgp.net keyservers have a serious bug
> wherein they will horribly mangle the encryption key of any person
> whose key has multiple subkeys on it. Mine is such a key.
I also noticed this corruption in my key, and I was quite glad when I
noticed that keyring.debian.org could handle the keys fine, AND that gnupg
could handle the corrupt key (by dropping the corrupted subkey packet when
importing).
> Conversation with the pgp.net folks indicates that this bug has been
> known since 1999 but not fixed (!) Worse, it is extremely difficult
> to get the key back to a usable state after it has been so corrupted.
You say you managed to get yours fixed... how? I'd like to fix mine, too.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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