[Sks-devel] Possible bug in search facility

[Jim Garrison]

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 "***@acm.org" (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) <***@gmail.com>
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"

[Travis Megee]

Post by Jim Garrison
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.
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 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
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