Re: Garbled data in keyservers

2018-12-05 Thread Stefan Claas
On Wed, 05 Dec 2018 11:24:10 -0900, justina colmena via Gnupg-users wrote: > A keyserver is a convenience. Of course it's not magic. Right now I > am using K-9 Mail and OpenKeychain on Android. When I received the > above message from the list, K-9 Mail informed me that it was signed > with a key

Re: Garbled data in keyservers

2018-12-05 Thread justina colmena via Gnupg-users
A keyserver is a convenience. Of course it's not magic. Right now I am using K-9 Mail and OpenKeychain on Android. When I received the above message from the list, K-9 Mail informed me that it was signed with a key with fingerprint "0xff80ae9d1dec358d", and referred me to the OpenKeychain app,

Re: Garbled data in keyservers

2018-12-05 Thread Stefan Claas
On Wed, 05 Dec 2018 18:53:20 +0100, Werner Koch wrote: > On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 17:34, stefan.cl...@posteo.de said: > > > Can you give more details about the security aspect? > > People believe that the keyservers magically return a matching key > for a mail address. There is no guarantee for

Re: Garbled data in keyservers

2018-12-05 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 17:34, stefan.cl...@posteo.de said: > Can you give more details about the security aspect? People believe that the keyservers magically return a matching key for a mail address. There is no guarantee for this. In fact all people from the strong had meanwhile expired faked

Re: Garbled data in keyservers

2018-12-05 Thread Stefan Claas
On Wed, 05 Dec 2018 13:28:50 +0100, Werner Koch wrote: > A better way of using keyservers would be to entire disable their > search by name or mail address capabilities. Not only in the web > interface but also in their API. Of course that will be a radical > change but I consider it better for

Re: Garbled data in keyservers

2018-12-05 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 10:31, c...@cod-web.net said: > On pool.sks-keyservers.net eveything works well while on other > keyservers I get 47Mb of garbled data from Yegor Timoshenko key, which I > never signed and I don't know exactly why it's included in search There are several problem with the

Re: Garbled data in keyservers

2018-12-05 Thread Claudio Canavese
Thank you. Fun fact: https://bitbucket.org/skskeyserver/sks-keyserver/issues/57 > https://bitbucket.org/skskeyserver/sks-keyserver/issues/60 > were opened by Yegor Timoshenko himself ^__^ Thank you again for your quick and sharp answer! -- CoD

Re: Garbled data in keyservers

2018-12-05 Thread Wiktor Kwapisiewicz via Gnupg-users
Hi Claudio, You may find these SKS issues relevant: https://bitbucket.org/skskeyserver/sks-keyserver/issues/41 https://bitbucket.org/skskeyserver/sks-keyserver/issues/57 https://bitbucket.org/skskeyserver/sks-keyserver/issues/60 I'm not able to comment on the specifics of search implementation

Garbled data in keyservers

2018-12-05 Thread Claudio Canavese
Hi everyone, I'm experiencing a strange behavior when looking for my email address on many keyserver web interfaces: I get al lot of garbled output from a key of someone else. I can't find and answer in this mailing list archives, so I decided to ask directly. Forgive me if it's a silly question.