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[#28932] Wrongly calculated key-IDs for RSAv3-keys

Date:
2011-02-16 13:45		 Priority:
3
Submitted By:
Sam Hall (samhall) 		Assigned To:
Daiki Ueno (ueno)
Category:
None		 State:
Open
Summary:
Wrongly calculated key-IDs for RSAv3-keys

Detailed description 
Apparently ruby-gpgme calculates IDs for RSAv3-keys wrong. For those keys it shows a different ID as primary than the
key (or the first subkey) really has. Supposedly it uses the rules for calculating RSAv4 (OpenPGP-compatible) keys,
which are different from those for RSAv3 keys.

The problem is know from old keyservers and described e.g. here:
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2002-May/012904.html

Due to this bug those keys are unusable with ruby-gpgme. While newer versions of GnuPG don't generate those keys anymore
there're still some of those keys out there being used.

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Date: 2011-04-11 08:49
Sender: Daiki Ueno

Well, which operation caused the problem?

Since key ID calculation is done in GnuPG which ruby-gpgme and
GPGME simply call, I guess there would be not much to be done
in the ruby-gpgme side.

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