Jeff Abrahamson on Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:50:30 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] GnuPG 1.2.1 trustdb checks for every pubkey import?


On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 04:40:21PM -0500, Eugene Smiley wrote:
> Jeff wrote:
> > But isn't the same key.
> 
> It is. Honest. David has stated this issue over on the PGP-Users
> and the GnuPG-Users mailing lists. Posted below for clarification.
> 
> pgp-users@cryptorights.org <> wrote:
> >> Note above that according to PGP 8, key "0x49E1CBC9" was used to
> >> verify your message. There is no such key on my keyring!!!?? The
> >> only one I have is "0x99242560".
> > 
> > 0x49E1CBC9 is a subkey on 0x99242560.  PGP 8 is the first version
> > of PGP that can handle signatures made by subkeys.  [...]
> > 
> > David

Now I understand. And now that I'm searching for subkeys, I do find it
on his key. When I downloaded before, I just saw the primary id that
was processed and didn't look further.

Well, I'll look forward to some day being able to go back and confirm
that he's who he says he is. ;-)

-- 
 Jeff

 Jeff Abrahamson  <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>
 GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276  63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B

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