On Wednesday 20 February 2008 16:13, Philippe Teuwen wrote: > When working with e.g. the keyserver onak 0.3.5-1 available in Debian, > keylookup fails importing any key because onak returns 40-nibble keyids > instead of the more usual 8-nibble keyids. > Note that other keyservers could return a 16-nibble keyid as it's also > a valid value for a keyid.
> We could build a more complex regex such as
> /^((([a-zA-Z0-9]{24})?[a-zA-Z0-9]{8})?[a-zA-Z0-9]{8})$/
> to enforce 8, 16 & 40-nibble keyids but let's things remain readable ;-)
Thanks! I've now applied this to the package. I've picked the latter regex,
because I believe that if we can easily detect brokenness (wrong length
keyids), we should cope with that.
Thijs
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