Re: Questiona about additional signatures on my key have not been synced to kernel-pgpkeys

Brian Masney <[email protected]> Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:13:25 -0400
Newsgroups org.kernel.linux.keys
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 04:18:15PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> That's expected behaviour (expected to me that is :-).
> 
> Since some time gpg defaults to not sync 3rd-party signatures when
> fetching a key from a keyserver. This is to cope for issues like
> 
> 	https://dkg.fifthhorseman.net/blog/openpgp-certificate-flooding.html
> 
> . So sending the key to the list is the right thing to do.
> 
> If you know what you're doing you can pass `--keyserver-options
> no-self-sigs-only` to gpg to "fix" that behaviour:

Thanks for the detailed explanation. That makes sense. I sent my updated
key with the additional signatures in the original email to this thread.

Brian