Andrew Gallagher wrote:
On 28 Jun 2021, at 18:02, Стефан Васильев via Gnupg-users
<gnupg-users@gnupg.org> wrote:
When looking at the stats, why are there IMHO such high numbers
(daily) on updated pub keys, compared to submitted ones?
It’s not clear, but it may be due to a lack of canonical ordering of
packets. Say Alice and Bob have both signed my key, but keyserver A
and keyserver B have different copies of my key with Alice and Bob’s
signatures in opposite order from each other. These keys will have
different checksums, even though they contain the same functional
information. If the sync process doesn’t result in A and B reordering
the sigs in the same way, then they will keep syncing (successfully!)
forever, incrementing the number of changes each time.
Ah, thanks. That makes sense, but could be then considered, software
wise, as unwanted behaviour.
Regards
Stefan
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