Uploaded a key to kleopatra and i saw a different key with same fingerprint

I uploaded a public key created from pgpkeygenerator and when it got to kleopatra, i noticed the public key changed to something else but the fingerprint is the same.
I signed a message and it was rejected by the receiver and the message says signature not verified.
Can i get help regarding this issue?

Hi @hanskfx,

so you have used the web application https://www.pgpkeygen.com/ to generate a keypair?

If so note that they consider it a work in progress and they claim that the common method is to use a command line on a GNU/Linux system. This strikes me a bit old, because Kleopatra is round quite a few years and works well on Windows. :wink:

Anyhow if there was no error message and if kleopatra accepted the private and public keypairs, they should be in there for good. So what was the change you were noticing?

And if the receiver rejected the signature, the question is why. Do you know the software that the receiver is using? Maybe it does not support the kind of algorithm that https://www.pgpkeygen.com/ uses for their key pairs?

If you have a second account, you could try to generate a new keypair just for testing and then share the details of the messages with us.

Regards,
Bernhard

Hi @hanskfx,

you don’t give us much info to go on but my interpretation is you sent a signed email to the recipient and got a automatic reply that the signature was not verified.

If I’m right then my guess would be that the recipient is using a software which automatically checks signed mails and rejects all signatures for which it does not know the public key. If this is the case you have to contact the other side and ask how you shoud proceed.