This ticket has remained open for a few years; nowadays short-ids are getting more and more deprecated, with the interfaces moving forwards towards using long-ids and full fingerprint.
Could the bug be closed as no longer really relevant in the way gnupg should be currently used? > I find strange that when I ask for a key what is returned is actually a > *master* key as well as all the possible *subkeys*. This obviously > means that the possibility of a collision is bigger. Personally I find it convienent to be able to download a key by giving the id of a subkey as that is what is displayed e.g. by mutt when an email is signed by an unavailable key. -- Elena ``of Valhalla''