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lost id on keyserver

Feb 10, 2022, 5:23 AM

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Hi,

I was following Debian Subkey guide to create and maintain keys/subkeys
https://wiki.debian.org/Subkeys

I had a functional key on the gpg (default) key server for this email
(raja@rsdisk.com).

I renamed ~/.gnupg to ~/.gnupg_hot and created a blank ~/.gnupg. At
this point I didn't use the export command to set the dir, but instead
toggled the names of the ~/.gnupg dir to shift between the two dirs in
gpg.

I created the subkey, output it to a file and imported it to gpg on
working dir. Then I sent the key to the keyserver, gpg --send-keys
*****. After that when I searched the keyserver by my email it, there
was no key. When I searched by my key
F01D54EDAEB1700EBEDE6FC6C0A9DE3BFEFD07E2 (now revoked) it was there.
When I imported it, it didn't have a mail id.

I'm not sure where I made the mistake. I have now made a new
key/subkey, published it.

I would like to know where I went wrong so I know, for in future.

Thanks!

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Re: lost id on keyserver [ In reply to ]

gnupg-users at gnupg

Feb 10, 2022, 6:50 AM

Post #2 of 3 (294 views)

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On 10/02/2022 13:23, Raja Saha wrote:
>
> I created the subkey, output it to a file and imported it to gpg on
> working dir. Then I sent the key to the keyserver, gpg --send-keys
> *****. After that when I searched the keyserver by my email it, there
> was no key. When I searched by my key
> F01D54EDAEB1700EBEDE6FC6C0A9DE3BFEFD07E2 (now revoked) it was there.
> When I imported it, it didn't have a mail id.

What OS are you using? The default keyserver depends on your linux
distro, and the default in Debian-based distros (keys.openpgp.org)
doesn't serve userIDs by default. If you published your key there and
then imported it into a different keyring, it wouldn't have come with
the userID unless you went through their email verification procedure first.

--
Andrew Gallagher

Re: lost id on keyserver [ In reply to ]

raja at rsdisk

Feb 11, 2022, 4:01 AM

Post #3 of 3 (289 views)

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Hi,

I am using Debian 10. My key was verified... I think you are right. At
that time (~3yrs back) I more worried about spam from publishing it on
the keyserver.

I'm pretty sure that is what it is. I didn't verify my email. Since I
was using the same machine to know more about gpg, it wasn't a problem,
it was reading my keyring.

Thank you! I would have never figured it out.

Cheers!

On Thu, 2022-02-10 at 14:50 +0000, Andrew Gallagher via Gnupg-users
wrote:
> On 10/02/2022 13:23, Raja Saha wrote:
> > I created the subkey, output it to a file and imported it to gpg on
> > working dir. Then I sent the key to the keyserver, gpg --send-keys
> > *****. After that when I searched the keyserver by my email it,
> > there
> > was no key. When I searched by my key
> > F01D54EDAEB1700EBEDE6FC6C0A9DE3BFEFD07E2 (now revoked) it was
> > there.
> > When I imported it, it didn't have a mail id.
>
> What OS are you using? The default keyserver depends on your linux
> distro, and the default in Debian-based distros (keys.openpgp.org)
> doesn't serve userIDs by default. If you published your key there
> and
> then imported it into a different keyring, it wouldn't have come
> with
> the userID unless you went through their email verification procedure
> first.
>
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