Re: [Sks-devel] Possible bug in search facility

[Travis Megee]

On 9/25/2018 12:04 PM, Jim Garrison wrote:
> I believe there is a bug in the search facility.  I found this initially
> on the MIT keyserver, but it seems to affect all the keyservers I've
> tried.
> 
> If I search for my email "address@hidden" (without the quotes) the server
> returns a totally unrealted key
> 
>   pub  2048R/07A7DBC7 2018-06-14 Yegor Timoshenko
> 
> This happens both with and without "Only return exact matches"
> checked.  In both cases the results page is titled
> 
>     Search results for 'org jhg acm'
> 
> If I search for only "jhg" (without the quotes) I get two resuts
> 
>   pub  4096R/006D909C 2018-06-26 JHG (Olympus) <address@hidden>
>   pub  2048R/07A7DBC7 2018-06-14 Yegor Timoshenko
> 
> The second key is followed by a VERY large amount of binary data (i.e.
> looks like gibberish in Firefox, see attached screenshot) followed by
> 
>   Server: sks_www/1.1.6
>   Cache-Control: no-cache
>   Pragma: no-cache
>   Expires: 0
>   Content-length: 595
>   Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
>   Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
> 
>   Time Out
>   Error handling request (GET /pks/lookup?search=jhg&op=index&exact=on):
>     Timed out after 2 seconds
> 
> The only way to find my keys is using the search string
> "James H. Garrison"
> 
> 
> 
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This appears to be the same as issue #63.

https://bitbucket.org/skskeyserver/sks-keyserver/issues/63/server-generates-bogus-response-toward

Travis

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