Right now, I don't know if the root problem came from the patch. As you say this patch only add mathematical and cryptographic functions to provide elliptic curves over finite fields.
I run a patched binary usually. I trust in it, but always I have rings backup. There is _not knowed_ bugs, but it is a relative new code that need more hack, and also it will receive improvements. Thank you to use the patch and never doubt to ask. /Sergi. A Dijous 02 Març 2006 16:21, Phil Pennock va escriure: > On 2006-03-01 at 19:10 +0100, Sergi Blanch i Torné wrote: > > Ok, in this case (David correct me if i am wrong) it look like there was > > something broke in the pubring that was fixed when you ran > > '--update-trustdb' (over an unpatched binary). > > Makes sense, although I'm curious as to what, and how it might have been > recoverable. > > > Now you haven't any problem. All works fine? I, also, download this key > > in my pubring without problems. > > Everything appears to, yes. > > > I remark: this ecc patch is _experimental_, use it carefully! > > Thanks. In this case, because there had been recent-ish core MPI > changes which David had provided one patch for, I assumed that this was > core gnupg and not anything touched by the Gentoo patches. Silly me, > Gentoo patches touch _everything_. ;^) > > I thought that the ECC patch just provided eliptic-curve crypto, so for > keys using normal sigs, it wouldn't have any effect; I'm rather > surprised that a keyring problem could be caused by it. > > Thanks, > -Phil _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
