Gnupg cannot handle extremely large keys on 32 bit Linux

[Charly Avital]

David Shaw wrote the following on 4/14/07 5:31 PM:
[...]

> 
> And this is a regular 1.4.7, no patches or anything done beyond
> download, ./configure, and make ?  And you tested it with the exact
> key from the original email at
> http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2007-April/030733.html ?

A regular 1.4.7, with source code downloaded from gnupg.org, signature
downloaded from same site, verified OK.

Compiled (as I always do) with Apple's Developers Tools that is a part
(optional install) of the original MacOS 10.4.*, code-named Tiger.

The only thing I did, was to cp idea.c to cipher, and then ./configure,
make and make install. Everything flowed from start to end.
--------
$ gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.7
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA
Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2
---------


Tested with the key block that is embedded in Alexander Feigl's email to
the gnupg-users list, as per the URL you mentioned above.

> I'm not sure where to go with this from here.  Clearly you and I are
> doing something different.  I just downloaded a brand new copy of the
> 1.4.7 tarball from ftp.gnupg.org, and built it again on three
> platforms and tested against the key from the original email.  It
> still works.
> 
> Can someone else with a Mac try importing that key?

I hope someone will pick up the hint, I'm taking the liberty of
cross-posting to macgpg-users.

Charly