I was amazed to see that my 2.3a key now carries a 2.6 version number and lists an 8-bit key ID. The key ID is identical to the old one with two new characters up front. You mean--gasp!--that someone downloaded the whole keyring shortly before the server was due to go down? And then uploaded all the keys with new version numbers, since nothing else needed to change? I'm shocked. Simply shocked. Does this bizarre "upgrading" mean that my key, as downloaded from that server, will function as a 2.6 key and become incompatible with 2.3n versions after the September 1st deadline? No, it means the keyring format didn't change in the new version, and that 2.6 prints out more of the last digits of your key, which hasn't actually changed. Eric