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Re: [Sks-devel] Re: Key strangeness
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Yaron Minsky |
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Re: [Sks-devel] Re: Key strangeness |
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Sun, 8 Feb 2004 07:22:09 -0500 (EST) |
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Uh, some more info please? I still don't quite understand the nature of
the problem. Both keyids pull up (different) keys belonging to one
address@hidden And one of them looks very much like the other with its
primary key packet replaced. But they are both there, at least on
sks.dnsalias.net. So I don't quite understand in what way SKS is supposed
to have malfunctioned.
David Shaw said:
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> On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 12:03:44AM +0000, Nick Boalch wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to work with a correspondent's key (apparently generated by
>> the
>> CryptoEx package) but it seems... weird.
>>
>> It's on the keyservers under the ID 3A546EC2, but the ID actually
>> appears to
>> be 7EDB7A47. However, the UIDs on that key are signed with 3A546EC2, a
>> key
>> that apparently doesn't exist. In short, I'm confused. ;-)
>>
>> I don't really know enough about the structure of keys to understand
>> exactly
>> what's going on here, so I'd appreciate any explanation?
>
> Something is fairly broken here, and I'm not quite sure what yet. The
> key is pretty certainly 7EDB7A47, but for some reason the keyserver
> indexed it as 3A546EC2. It seems possible, or even likely that the
> keyid was 3A546EC2 at one point as the three self-sigs and the subkey
> binding sig are from 3A546EC2.
>
> All in all, I'm guessing corruption of the key, which can pretty
> easily change the keyid to something else. It could be a bug in
> CryptoEx, but I'd think a bug that changes keyids would have been
> noticed before now. What does your correspondent say his keyid is?
>
> None of this explains how the keyservers managed to index it correctly
> as 3A546EC2, but serve up a key that hashes to 7EDB7A47. I've cc'd
> one of the keyserver development lists. Yaron, any ideas?
>
> David
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> iHEEARECADEFAkAlksAqGGh0dHA6Ly93d3cuamFiYmVyd29ja3kuY29tL2Rhdmlk
> L2tleXMuYXNjAAoJEOJmXIdJ4cvJQCMAn0j46jZVjDZAm7aqTUDcL1kkCZgyAKDX
> Zy0EHT9xm7MewJKE58khhQlHBA==
> =7RF1
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- [Sks-devel] Re: Key strangeness, David Shaw, 2004/02/07
- Re: [Sks-devel] Re: Key strangeness,
Yaron Minsky <=
- Re: [Sks-devel] Re: Key strangeness, David Shaw, 2004/02/08
- Re: [Sks-devel] Re: Key strangeness, David Shaw, 2004/02/08
- Re: [Sks-devel] Re: Key strangeness, Yaron Minsky, 2004/02/08
- Re: [Sks-devel] Re: Key strangeness, David Shaw, 2004/02/08
- Re: [Sks-devel] Re: Key strangeness, Yaron Minsky, 2004/02/08
- Re: [Sks-devel] Re: Key strangeness, David Shaw, 2004/02/08
- Re: [Sks-devel] Re: Key strangeness, gabriel rosenkoetter, 2004/02/08
- Re: [Sks-devel] Re: Key strangeness, David Shaw, 2004/02/08