importing large keyring

[David Shaw]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:28:39PM +0200, Gerhard Siegesmund wrote:

> > I've also seen similar "corruption" recently (with GPG 1.4.1):
> >   %gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.sascha.silbe.org --recv CA57AD7C
> >   Host:           keyserver.sascha.silbe.org
> >   Command:        GET
> >   gpgkeys: HTTP URL is `hkp://keyserver.sascha.silbe.org/pks/lookup?op=get&options=mr&search=0xCA57AD7C'
> >   gpg: buffer shorter than subpacket
> [...]
> 
> This seems to be a common problem? I recently found the same errors, but
> didn't care about them. Is is something I should be concerned about?

No, not really (at least if you see them on a keyserver like in the
example).  The copy of the key on the keyserver is corrupt.  GnuPG
will do a reasonable amount of repair as it imports, and generally
ends up with a usable key.

David