Re: [Sks-devel] trust packets hose SKS dbs?

[David Shaw]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:59:50PM -0500, Jason Harris wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:32:13PM -0500, Yaron Minsky wrote:
> 
> > What is the nature of the hosing?  This is a tad sketchy for me to
> > figure out what the problem is.
> 
> "sks merge" any old GPG keyring and do index/vindex listings and
> hgets for the keyids and resulting SKS hashes.  Those actions should
> throw exceptions and cause permanent diffs with your gossip peers
> because the trust packets on your server are hosing hgets of such
> keys.

Note that PGP keyrings have trust packets in them as well.  It sounds
like there would be a problem with keyrings from either program.

David