Self-Introduction: Timothy Murphy

[Karl Larsen]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> On Sunday 23 December 2007 04:42:07 pm Paul W. Frields wrote:
>
>   
>>> What for instance do the lines
>>> ------------------------------------------------------
>>> gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --send-key KEYNAME
>>>
>>> For KEYNAME, substitute the key ID of your primary keypair.
>>> ------------------------------------------------------
>>> actually mean?
>>> Why not just give an example instead of this abstract terminology.
>>>
>>> Assuming the "key ID" means something like "D575F650"
>>> then the advice in my experience does not work.
>>>       
>> I just performed this step on my machine again, using my key ID
>> "BD113717," and the procedure worked fine.
>>     
>
> What precisely are you doing?
>
> My statements are:
>
> 1. It is not clear what "key ID" means.
> If you google for this term,
> you will find that the ID is normally prefaced with 0x.
> Here for example is the entry in "PGP glossary"
> ------------------------------------------------------
> To enable PGP to distinct between a username (userID) and the key ID, the 
> keyID is prefixed with 0x, for example 0xDD934139. ...
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> But my main point is the term "key ID" _is not clear_,
> and should be accompanied by a concrete example.
>
>   
>> I have done this many times, 
>> both with a prepended "0x" and without, and all of these operations
>> succeeded.
>>     
>
> If you go to pgp.mit.edu (which appears to be the point of the exercise)
> and put in your ID without 0x, is it found?
>
>   
>> I've confirmed the success using wireshark to look at the 
>> network traffic.  I think if you are having a problem -- the nature of
>> which I can't tell from the information you gave -- it might be on your
>> end.
>>     
>
> I'm not having a problem at all.
> I'm saying that the documentation is not clear.
>
>
>   
Please go to the MIT web site at http://pgp.mit.edu/ and put your own 
good key in and see if it finds it. if it does please put FE2353A7 in as 
a new key and see if it takes it. I have been trying all day without 
success.

Karl


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