On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 02:17:31PM +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote: > Recently (somewhere around the update from gnupg 1.2.x to 1.4.x) my > keyring got corrupted: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gpg --export > /dev/null > gpg: buffer shorter than subpacket > gpg: signature packet without timestamp > gpg: buffer shorter than subpacket > gpg: signature packet without keyid > gpg: buffer shorter than subpacket > [...]
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 gpg: buffer shorter than subpacket gpg: signature packet without keyid gpg: buffer shorter than subpacket gpg: signature packet without timestamp gpg: key CA57AD7C: accepted non self-signed user ID "[jpeg image of size 3400]" gpg: key CA57AD7C: accepted non self-signed user ID "[jpeg image of size 3400]" gpg: key CA57AD7C: accepted non self-signed user ID "[jpeg image of size 3400]" gpg: buffer shorter than subpacket gpg: buffer shorter than subpacket gpg: signature packet without keyid gpg: buffer shorter than subpacket [snip] $gpg -k CA57AD7C gpg: buffer shorter than subpacket gpg: buffer shorter than subpacket gpg: signature packet without keyid gpg: buffer shorter than subpacket pub 2048R/CA57AD7C 2004-12-06 uid PGP Global Directory Verification Key uid [jpeg image of size 3400] uid [jpeg image of size 3400] uid [jpeg image of size 3400] uid [jpeg image of size 3400] %gpg --export CA57AD7C > /dev/null gpg: buffer shorter than subpacket gpg: buffer shorter than subpacket gpg: signature packet without keyid gpg: buffer shorter than subpacket NB: I set "allow-non-selfsigned-uid" in ~/.gnupg/options, but you probably don't, and we're seeing most of the same errors. > However, most of the keys are still OK, so I'd like to use the output of > "gpg --export" to re-create the keyring. > The keyring is rather large (70MB) and after importing several thousand > keys gpg uses more memory than is available as physical RAM, so it's > continously swapping. After 2 days without significant progress I've > aborted the import. (Out of curiosity, what do you plan to have GPG do with the keys once they're imported?) I often work with keys dumped straight from pks without doing a "gpg --import" on them. You should be able to do the same with SKS. -- Jason Harris | NIC: JH329, PGP: This _is_ PGP-signed, isn't it? [EMAIL PROTECTED] _|_ web: http://keyserver.kjsl.com/~jharris/ Got photons? (TM), (C) 2004
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