Issue with certain key

[David Shaw]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 06:55:02PM +0100, Christian Biere wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I cannot retrieve this key using GnuPG 1.4.2.1 on NetBSD:
> 
> gpg: requesting key FC05DA69 from hkp server blackhole.pca.dfn.de
> gpg: mpi larger than indicated length (2 bytes)
> gpg: read_block: read error: invalid packet
> gpg: Total number processed: 0
> gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
> 
> All checks pass when I run "make check". I've also tried
> pgpkeys.mit.edu. Is there something wrong with this key?
> According to its owner, it's alright. So it must be a bug,
> right?

Yes.  There are corrupt signatures on that key.  GnuPG 1.4.3 has code
to skip the corrupt signatures rather than reject the whole key.

David