[90007] in Cypherpunks
Re: Key Signing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Fri Nov 14 08:00:16 1997
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 13:19:18 +0100 (MET)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: nobody@replay.com (Anonymous)
Reply-To: nobody@replay.com (Anonymous)
Bill Stewart wrote:
> I'm not sure how comfortable I am signing a key which has the
> private keys made public - so I signed it, and revoked it,
> and you're welcome to the signed revocation certificate :-)
>
> The keyserver says it accepted the certificate, but doesn't
> find it when I query it for the key, but then it did that to me
> earlier today, so I'm not sure if it's there or not.
> (It's the server at http://www.pgp.com/keyserver/pks-lookup.cgi .)
>
> The KeyID was 0x61C747B1 - 512-bit RSA
The PGP Keyserver could not find the key when accessed from the
PGP web site (Find a Public Key), but when requesting it from
inside PGP 5.0, it retrieved the key, revoking the key on my
secret key ring, in the process.
Necessarily Knott, ME
(Although it _may_ be me, since I have not signed the message...
Or is it the other way around? This is getting confusing.)
