GnuPG 2.1.6: Failure with using fingerprint for expired key

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Fri Jul 31 12:07:51 CEST 2015


On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 16:34, patrick at enigmail.net said:

> I'm using a keybox. Would it help you to get access to my pubring.kbx file?

Thanks for the file.  Actually it would have been possible to create an
expired key and try to access if by fingerprint.  But with your support
it was just a few minutes with gdb.

Pretty straight bug resulting from not flushing a cache as needed.
Commit 328a6b6 fixes this.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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