Issue with certain key

[Christian Biere]

David Shaw wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 06:55:02PM +0100, Christian Biere wrote:
> > gpg: requesting key FC05DA69 from hkp server blackhole.pca.dfn.de
> > gpg: mpi larger than indicated length (2 bytes)
> > gpg: read_block: read error: invalid packet
> > gpg: Total number processed: 0
> > gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.

> > All checks pass when I run "make check". I've also tried
> > pgpkeys.mit.edu. Is there something wrong with this key?
> > According to its owner, it's alright. So it must be a bug,
> > right?

> Yes.  There are corrupt signatures on that key.  GnuPG 1.4.3 has code
> to skip the corrupt signatures rather than reject the whole key.

Thanks for confirming this. It's a little bit odd though. I'm sure I
used blackhole.pca.dfn.de to retrieve this key initially and that one
uses SKS unlike pgpkeys.mit.edu which uses the broken PKS. It's really
strange but on Debian with GnuPG 1.4.2 I can retrieve the key and
cannot reproduce the warning. On NetBSD, no dice. The key seems to
have corrupted my key ring slightly too because I get that warning
whenever I use GnuPG now. It's still working fine but always emits
that warning additionally.  I even tried an empty ~/.gnupg and the
suggested subkeys.pgp.net but I always get the warning as above. I'll
fetch GnuPG from CVS and retry.

-- 
Christian
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