Debian/Ubuntu keyring maintainer issues (was: Re: [Sks-devel] Sks and mailsync)

[Jason Harris]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 08:39:28PM +0200, Marco Nenciarini wrote:

> I think we must help pks network to remain in sync most as possible
> (but without flooding it).

Last I checked, all (active) SKS servers were doing their part except
keyserver.ubuntu.com, which still doesn't send mailsyncs to any
onak/OpenPKSD/pks keyservers:

  http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=stats

Also, a Debian keyring:

  rsync://keyring.debian.org/keyrings/keyrings/debian-keyring.pgp

has the (in)famous problem (w/GPG 1.4.2):

  gpg: mpi larger than indicated length (2 bytes)
  gpg: keyring_get_keyblock: read error: invalid packet
  gpg: error reading keyblock: invalid keyring

and can't be (armored and) fed through keyserver(s) with the rest
of the Debian keyrings, as I occasionally do because it always turns
up new data.

Finally, pushing these keyrings through my SKS keyserver just now
resulted in 78 hash updates, meaning that despite ongoing _queries_
from keyring.debian.org (via lwp-trivial/1.41, to subkeys.pgp.net),
nobody is properly pushing these updates _to_ the well-synchronized
keyservers.

IIRC, the same person is responsible for all these issues.

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