Keys which leave GnuPG unusable

[Florian Weimer]

"Robert J. Hansen" <rjhansen@inav.net> writes:

> With GnuPG 1.0.6, it'll throw a fit about an MPI being too large and will 
> segfault.  You can import it just fine, but once you import it, all 
> further operations crash and burn.

It's probably an encrypted MPI started with a zero octet.  This
problem is already known, I think.

Workaround: Create a new directory, copy the secret key (in
non-armored from) to "secring.gpg", use "gpg --home . --edit-key" to
change the passphrase.  It's likely that the result is readable by
GnuPG (the bug is triggered with a probability of 1:85 or so).

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