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I am reposting this from comp.security.pgp.tech, where my plea was met only
with stony silence.

Can someone here help?  (Lars, do you know anything about this?)

I have read the pgp manpage and pgpdoc[12].txt files in their entirety, and
cannot figure out what the problem is.

Newsgroups: comp.security.pgp.tech
Subject: PGP -kc forgets a key, has corrupt output?
Date: 24 Jun 1997 13:05:01 GMT
Organization: Purdue University
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Sender: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Could someone enlighten me please?

I just recently signed the key of someone whose key is on my public
ring. pgp -kv on my public ring shows correct output, but pgp -kc makes
it appear that I have signed my own key twice, and leaves out the other
inidividual's information -- except for the fact that it recognizes his
signatures on my and other keys and expands it to his name.

I'm using pgp 2.6.3a from the pgp-us Debian package assembled by Lars
Wirzenius (moderator of comp.os.linux.announce, among other things).

Here is some sample output, edited for brevity.

[0] 205 apocalypse ~ > pgp -kvv | more
Pretty Good Privacy(tm) 2.6.3a - Public-key encryption for the masses.
(c) 1990-96 Philip Zimmermann, Phil's Pretty Good Software. 1996-03-04
Uses the RSAREF(tm) Toolkit, which is copyright RSA Data Security, Inc.
Distributed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Export of this software may be restricted by the U.S. government.
Current time: 1997/06/24 12:53 GMT

Key ring: '/home/branden/.pgp/pubring.pgp'
Type Bits/KeyID    Date       User ID
pub  1024/F6599E8D 1996/07/20 Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[...]
pub  1024/D23450F9 1997/06/21 Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig       D190E74D             Terran Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig       D23450F9             Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
pub  1024/D190E74D 1996/09/25 Terran Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig       D23450F9             Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig       C38884A5             (Unknown signator, can't be checked)
sig       20D3D431             (Unknown signator, can't be checked)
sig       914C58A9             (Unknown signator, can't be checked)
sig       47D738C1             (Unknown signator, can't be checked)
sig       B29DE5FD             (Unknown signator, can't be checked)
sig       D7BD2F75             Timothy M. Stough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig       9C2A5CDD             (Unknown signator, can't be checked)
sig       FC0C02D5             Eugene H. Spafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig       D190E74D             Terran Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
6 matching keys found.

As you see, my own key is next to last in this output, followed by Terran
Lane's, which I signed.

Now for the strange part.

[0] 206 apocalypse ~ > pgp -kc | more
Pretty Good Privacy(tm) 2.6.3a - Public-key encryption for the masses.
(c) 1990-96 Philip Zimmermann, Phil's Pretty Good Software. 1996-03-04
Uses the RSAREF(tm) Toolkit, which is copyright RSA Data Security, Inc.
Distributed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Export of this software may be restricted by the U.S. government.
Current time: 1997/06/24 12:56 GMT

Key ring: '/home/branden/.pgp/pubring.pgp'
Type Bits/KeyID    Date       User ID
pub  1024/F6599E8D 1996/07/20 Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[...]
pub  1024/D23450F9 1997/06/21 Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig!      D190E74D 1997/06/24  Terran Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig!      D23450F9 1997/06/21  Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig!      D23450F9 1997/06/24  Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

And Terran Lane's key, which I signed, is completely absent from this
output.

Is this a bug in 2.6.3a, am I misinterpreting this output, or has my public
ring become corrupted?

Please help.  Apologies for not signing this message "correctly",
my newsreader does not integrate well with pgp.

Of course, pgp-signed or -encrypted mail is welcome.

- -- 
G. Branden Robinson
Purdue University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/

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