Re: [Sks-devel] Fwd: [Announce] GnuPG 1.4.12 released

[David Shaw]

On Jan 30, 2012, at 2:34 PM, User1001 wrote:

> HKP is no longer in use?

HKP is still in use.  One of the requirements of the old PKSD keyserver was 
that it could only search for short (8 digit) key IDs.  Even if the user 
searched for a full fingerprint, GPG would have to chop it down and only search 
for the last 8 digits.

Since SKS does not have this limitation (or rather, it rapidly won't have this 
limitation), GPG was changed to pass through whatever the user searched for.  
This helps in the odd case of two keys with the same short key ID, but also 
makes GPG incompatible with the old, no longer used, PKSD implementation of 
HKP.  SKS is just fine.

David