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Missing feedback when sending key to key server
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Description

When sending a key to a key server there's no feedback on whether the operating
succeeded, neither by default nor after adding --verbose or --debug.

I understand that no feedback usually means success on the command line, but I
suggest returing "Key successfully sent to the key server" with the --verbose
option.

This made me wonder whether the operation succeeded while submitting a key to a
private key server for a keysigning party such as described in
https://people.debian.org/~lunar/blog/posts/ksp_keyserver/.

After seeing #1832 I realized that I have no other option that asking the admin
of the keyserver to know if it really succeeded.

Details

Version
2.0.26

Event Timeline

sajolida renamed this task from Missing feedback when sending key to keyserver to Missing feedback when sending key to key server.Jan 29 2016, 2:01 PM
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sajolida set Version to 2.0.26.
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There won't be any output if the keyserver responds with success. In other
cases you will see an error message (modulo the resolved bug T1832).
However, even if the keyserver responded with OK, there is no guarantee that the
keyserver worked as expected or that it properly syncs with other keyservers.

To make sure that you key is really on the keyservers, you should ask an
arbitrary keyserver for your key after giving it a few days to sync up.

werner lowered the priority of this task from Normal to Wishlist.Jan 6 2017, 5:41 PM
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