GnuPG 2.1 - import of secret key fail with IPC error

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

Hi,

This might have been reported before, but just a heads up regarding the
move to gpg-agent store of keys in GnuPG 2.1 . Ignoring the warnings of
it being a development version (I'm not sure how stable 2.1 is becoming
now, so how much emphasis should be put on this warning? anyhow, this is
on a secure box and its the only way to properly test it)

When trying to import one of my more non-standard (in the sense that it
is a 15360 bits RSA/ElGamal key pair) I get "Too much data for IPC
layer" as shown in #Snippet 1# below. The key is fully functional in
GnuPG 1.4 and 2.0.

Any hint on where to start debugging this? From what I can tell this
would be in libassuan?


##
Snippet 1
##

$ gpg2 --import sec_largekey.asc

gpg: NOTE: THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT VERSION!
gpg: It is only intended for test purposes and should NOT be
gpg: used in a production environment or with production keys!
gpg: key 7EF326AE43E67CF7: "Kristian Fiskerstrand (Large key)
<kf at kfwebs.net>" not changed
gpg: key 7EF326AE43E67CF7/7EF326AE43E67CF7: error sending to agent: Too
much data for IPC layer
gpg: error building skey array: Too much data for IPC layer
gpg: Total number processed: 3
gpg:              unchanged: 1
gpg:       secret keys read: 3



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