Re: [Sks-devel] problems with SKS 1.0.10 when searching by key ID from GnuPG

[David Shaw]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 07:41:50PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On 03/22/2009 06:41 PM, David Shaw wrote:
> > The 'exact=on' problem is specific to 1.0.10.  It worked properly in 1.0.9.
> > 
> > See: http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg00287.html
> 
> Ah, thanks for the pointer, David.
> 
> Given that this causes problems for users of gnupg, has any thought been
> given to requiring members of the keyserver pools to not run that
> version of SKS?  keys.gnupg.net itself contains several keyservers
> running 1.0.10, which misbehave in response to standard gpg searches by
> keyid.

None that I know of.  Eventually, such a thing will be necessary, but
it would have to be done via whoever controls the particular keyserver
round-robin.

The odd thing here is that version has been broken for at least 2
years, as I reported the problem in 2006.  Did nobody else notice, or
are there still a bunch of 1.0.9 SKSes out there?

David