Automatic acronym expansion

What always shows as WebmasterWorld?

[dingman]

I just received another user's PGP public key by sticky mail, which is great and all, but it seems it got corrupted by having a portion of the key automatically replaced with "WebmasterWorld". I know that the automatic translation is there to avoid trademark issues, but I don't remember what the acronym is, so I don't know how to restore this key to a usable state. Can anybody help?

And Brett, would there be any way to turn that off just for stickymail? Or add a checkbox turning off *all* content translations for purposes like this? It seems like stickymail has much less chance of getting you into trouble for trademark issues than normal posts do, and we can't be the first or the last users here to try to exchange PGP keys through stickymail, can we?

[digitalghost]

>>first or the last users here to try to exchange PGP keys through stickymail

There's a perfectly good key server already set up, why change forum codes when all you need to do is take advantage of a system that is already in place?

[dingman]

Because "perfectly good" doesn't seem to extend to letting me get at his key. I even stickied him the list of available keys that matched his name and he confirmed that he wasn't on the list, though he had submitted his key.

[digitalghost]

Well, there are two servers that PGP can send keys to easily, then there's regular email or ftp...

Sounds like he's unfamiliar with PGP and not really sure that he sent the key to the server. On top of that, there should be no need to "send him a list" as he should know what email his key is registered with and then the search function can find it easily.

[dingman]

It's registered to the e-mail address he sent a message to me from. I've searched six ways to Sunday, and it just doesn't come up. And frankly, this guy has a post count twice as high as either of ours and shows every sign that he's a good programmer. I sincerely doubt that he is unable to submit a key to the keyservers.

I've managed to try enough permutations of the possible letters to get something that passes the checksum out of stickymail. I still think there ought to be a way to bypass automatic editing in stickymail - I don't often send base64 encoded data through such mediums, but it seems reasonable to expect it to work when I do.

[bill]

Are you referring to the W--m--W (no dashes) feature? That automatically becomes "WebmasterWorld" (without the quotes).

Why couldn't you just e-mail the key?
Here are some additional PGP Keyservers [mccune.cc] if the current ones aren't working for you.

[dingman]

Are you referring to the W--m--W (no dashes) feature?

Yes. I wasn't sure off the top of my head if it was W--W or W--m--W, and whether case mattered.

additional PGP Keyservers

I just tried each and every one of them, with no luck. I can get my own key, but not his. <added>And he can get his from the keyservers using ldap://keyserver.pgp.com. As far as I know gpg only does HKP, not ldap</added>

dingman@andrew:~$ gpg --version 
gpg (GnuPG) 1.2.1 
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. 
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it 
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details. 
  
Home: ~/.gnupg 
Supported algorithms: 
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG 
Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH 
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160 
Compress: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB 

[bill]

I just tried each and every one of them, with no luck.

Honestly the problem isn't on your side, but his from the sounds of it. However I use PGP, not GPG so I may be wrong. To the best of my knowledge these PGP key servers all update regularly, so if this person uploaded his key to one of them then it will propagate to the rest of them within a short period of time.

The best way to exchange keys is probably e-mail.