Re: [Sks-devel] Yet another SKS gossip request

[Sascha Silbe]

Excerpts from David Benfell's message of Sun Feb 20 19:20:55 +0100 2011:

> I have a new keyserver running and would like to peer with other
> servers. Please add me to your 'membership' file with the following
> entry and provide your details in return so I can do the same:
> 
> cybernude.org 11370 # David Benfell 0xFBEC617D

Welcome to the pool! Please add

keys.sugarlabs.org 11370 # Sascha Silbe <address@hidden> 0xA13AC1B1 (PGP mails 
only)

to your membership file.

The key id you gave is for your current subkey, not your main key. Was
that on purpose? If so, it might make sense to include an exclamation
mark ("!") right after the key id to make sure GnuPG users who copy &
paste the key ID will use the subkey instead of the main key. From the
gpg manual page:

> HOW TO SPECIFY A USER ID
[...]
>       By key Id.
[...]
>              When using gpg an exclamation mark (!) may be appended to
>              force using the specified primary or secondary key and not
>              to try and calculate which primary or secondary key to use.

Even with the exclamation mark, you shouldn't rely on this specific
subkey getting used as the MUA of the sender might not support selecting
which subkey to encrypt to.

Sascha

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