problem with exporting subkeys

disastry at saiknes.lv.NO.SPaM.NET disastry at saiknes.lv.NO.SPaM.NET
Thu Feb 28 11:57:01 CET 2002


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David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com wrote:
> > Second question: why GPG chokes on it?
> 
> Judging from the listing you posted, it seems you did
> --export-secret-subkeys on a v3 key (mixed in with your v4 keys).  V3
> keys do not work with --export-secret-subkeys, and in fact cause the
> resulting file to be unusable.
> 
> I just committed a fix which makes --export-secret-subkeys ignore v3
> keys.
> David

note that v3 keys also can have subkeys. OpenPGP does not forbid it.
I have even seen v3 keys with subkeys.

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