[Enigmail] Keyservers mangle with subkey binding sigs (was Re: Sub-Key Look-Up)

[John Clizbe]

Vlad "SATtva" Miller wrote:
> Olav Seyfarth wrote on 19.01.2008 05:40:
>> Hi SATtva,
> 
>>> Could anyone confirm this behavior?
> 
>> I havn't tried but suggest you ask on the GnuPG users list since the developers
>> will have autoritative answers.
> 
> Thanks. I will, but I'm afraid this has nothing to do with GnuPG, but
> with PKS software...

If it's PKS software you are indeed referring to, then there is little hope. PKS
is essentially orphaned software - no development or maintenance is being done.

PKS has always been notorious in its inability to handle many V4 key constructs.

I know of only one keyserver that had the most egregious V4 mangling isues
patched, and the patches were never released into the wild. That was Jason
Harris' server at kjsl.com. It was the only PKS server included in
subkeys.pgp.net. I believe Jason converted to SKS this last December.

SKS was created a few years ago as a replacement to PKS (and part of a PhD
dissertation). It is designed and intended to be fully OpenPGP RFC compliant.

The main project page is at http://www.nongnu.org/sks/
There is a support list for development issues at sks-devel at nongnu.org.



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