Corruption of KeyRing (possible WinPT related?)

Timo Schulz twoaday at freakmail.de
Sat Jun 4 11:28:39 CEST 2005


On Fri Jun 03 2005; 13:16, Peter Schott wrote:

> I will sometimes start my PC and when the WinPT program launches, I have
> a 0-byte pubring or secring.  I have backups, but I am a little

I heard about this problem one or two times, but fact is that WinPT never
writes to the keyring directly. The backup is also a one-way process
which means: the pubring.gpg is copied to pubring-bak.gpg but not vice
versa.


> concerned that I could lose all of my keys due to some corruption or
> improper closing of the file.

What GPG version you use (1.4.1)?


        Timo



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