GnuPG can't handle some V3 secret keys

[Florian Weimer]

pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) writes:

> Could this be a side-effect of use with ASN.1, where integers are signed and
> need to be encoded with a leading zero if the high bit is set?  Or is it just
> people padding them out to n bits with zeroes if necessary?

No, it's just a result of encryption.  Every octet can appear at the
beginning of an MPI, including the zero octet.

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