[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [Sks-devel] primary uid flag
From: |
Yaron M. Minsky |
Subject: |
Re: [Sks-devel] primary uid flag |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:31:05 -0500 |
I've been looking into this a little further. I think the problem is
that I have the wrong algorithm for figuring out whether a key is
primary. Right now I do it by checking if any of the signatures
indicate that the key is primary. By this metric, the quickie.net key
IS a primary uid, since it does have at least one signature that claims
that it is primary.
So, if that algorithm is wrong, what's right? When does a UID count as
primary? When the self-sig is primary? I don't have the RFC in front
of me. Anyone know how I figure out which packet is the self-sig?
y
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 05:06, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> Hi,
>
> SKS does not honor the primary uid flag in normal indexes and for
> signers' uids in the verbose index.
>
> Consider http://keyserver.noreply.org/pks/lookup?search=0x8A277312&op=vindex
> It shows:
> | sig sig3 5DE480FC 2004-01-18 __________ __________ L. Sassaman
> <address@hidden>
>
> the correct primary uid for that is @abditum.com, so that should be
> shown. The same problem is with
> http://keyserver.noreply.org:11371/pks/lookup?op=index&search=0x4A0A81495DE480FC
>
> vindex does it get right.
>
> I tried to add that but didn't really see where to do that. Yaron, can
> you fix that please?
>
> Peter
--
|--------/ Yaron M. Minsky \--------|
|--------\ http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/yminsky/ /--------|
Open PGP --- KeyID B1FFD916
Fingerprint: 5BF6 83E1 0CE3 1043 95D8 F8D5 9F12 B3A9 B1FF D916