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


From: Yaron Minsky
Subject: Re: [Sks-devel] trust packets hose SKS dbs?
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 10:53:52 -0500

What happens when you submit such a key through the web interface? 
Are the trust packets carried through?

y


On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 00:03:29 -0500, David Shaw <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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
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