Problems with a malformed (?) key

[James Troup]

Hi,

I got a key from a Debian developer which gnupg got extremely upset
about, so much so it even refused to delete it from the keyring once
it had been added.  I assume the key got corrupted in the mail on the
way, though I'm not sure how, since the PGP signature of the mail
checked out okay.

Transcript (minus greeting and ``insecure memory'' warnings) and
original mail follows:

| 16:29:05 at junk| ~/debian-keyring $gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring ./fubar.gpg --import 1
| gpg: keyid 9EB2E7D1: secret key without public key
| gpg: failed to initialize the TrustDB: Public key not found

^^ Incidentally; what's this?  It happens even on valid keys.

| gpg: malformed CRC
| gpg: 1: key E1EE3FB1 imported
| 16:29:22 at junk| ~/debian-keyring $gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring ./fubar.gpg --list-keys
| ./fubar.gpg
| -----------
| gpg: packet(2) too short
| pub  1024D/E1EE3FB1 1998-06-25 Marco d'Itri <md at linux.it>
| sub  1024G/E0C955F3 1998-06-25 
| 16:29:29 at junk| ~/debian-keyring $gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring ./fubar.gpg --delete-key 0xE1EE3FB1
| gpg: packet(2) too short
| gpg: read_keyblock: read error: Invalid packet
| gpg: enum_keyblocks(read) failed: g10err=32
| gpg: keyid 9EB2E7D1: secret key without public key
| gpg: failed to initialize the TrustDB: Public key not found
| gpg: packet(2) too short
| gpg: read_keyblock: read error: Invalid packet
| gpg: enum_keyblocks(read) failed: g10err=32
| gpg: 0xE1EE3FB1: user not found
| gpg: 0xE1EE3FB1: delete key failed: g10err=32
| 16:29:50 at junk| ~/debian-keyring $

-- 
James
~Yawn And Walk North~                                  http://yawn.nocrew.org/

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From: "Marco d'Itri" <md at linux.it>
Message-ID: <19980701213803.A2528 at wonderland.linux.it>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 21:38:03 +0200
To: James Troup <gpg-update at debian.org>
Subject: Re: Replacing/phasing out PGP (was Re: Idea for non-free organization)
References: <19980630183118.A13326 at mercury.oz.net> <Pine.LNX.3.96.980701033227.12809A-100000 at ns1.greenbush.com> <19980701110942.58843 at wi.leidenuniv.nl> <dmmg1gl8shh.fsf at dcsun4.comp.brad.ac.uk> <dmmg1glh4fw.fsf at dcsun4.comp.brad.ac.uk>


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On Jul 01, James Troup <james at nocrew.org> wrote:
 >> If you want to generate a GNUpg key and send it to
 >> gpg-update at debian.org, it'll be added.
This is my gpg key. It's signed with my old RSA key.

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Version: GNUPG v0.3.0 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: This is an alpha version!

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--=20
ciao,
Marco

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