Re: [Sks-devel] primary uid flag

[Yaron M. Minsky]

I've been looking into this a little further.  I think the problem is
that I have the wrong algorithm for figuring out whether a key is
primary.  Right now I do it by checking if any of the signatures
indicate that the key is primary.  By this metric, the quickie.net key
IS a primary uid, since it does have at least one signature that claims
that it is primary.

So, if that algorithm is wrong, what's right?  When does a UID count as
primary?  When the self-sig is primary?  I don't have the RFC in front
of me.  Anyone know how I figure out which packet is the self-sig?

y

On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 05:06, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> SKS does not honor the primary uid flag in normal indexes and for
> signers' uids in the verbose index.
> 
> Consider http://keyserver.noreply.org/pks/lookup?search=0x8A277312&op=vindex
> It shows:
> | sig  sig3  5DE480FC 2004-01-18 __________ __________ L. Sassaman 
> <address@hidden>
> 
> the correct primary uid for that is @abditum.com, so that should be
> shown.  The same problem is with
> http://keyserver.noreply.org:11371/pks/lookup?op=index&search=0x4A0A81495DE480FC
> 
> vindex does it get right.
> 
> I tried to add that but didn't really see where to do that.  Yaron, can
> you fix that please?
> 
> Peter
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