Issue in Importing a PGP signature key

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Fri May 26 18:49:47 CEST 2006


On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 02:55:56PM -0700, amit bhalerao wrote:
> Hi ,
> 
> 	Our upstream system is using a PGP to encrypt the file . We have a  
> GPG installed on our system . However when i try to import the PGP  
> signature key into our system , I am getting following error message.
> *****
> tosk[etrut]:/ngs/app/etrut $ gpg --import HTST126A.pass.asc
> gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory!
> gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more information
> gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
> gpg: Total number processed: 0
> 
> *****
> Any idea why?

"no valid OpenPGP data found" means pretty much what it says: GPG
looked for a key in the file and didn't find one.  If it does not
reveal something that shouldn't be revealed, post here or send me the
HTST126A.pass.asc file and I'll take a look at it.

David



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