A strange error code

[Werner Koch]

 On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 11:25:00PM -0800
 ..Ross.. wrote:

> gpg: Ohhhh jeeee: mpi crosses packet bordersecmem usage: 0/0 bytes in 

[Ooops, a bug in a bug message: There should be a LF in "bordersecmem"]

This indicates a corrupted OpenPGP message.  I think the term is not 
good, so a suggested is welcome.  And it should not be printed like an
internal error (log_bog) but as a fatal error.

The reason for this error is this:

A OpenPGP message consists of many packts.  Each packet has a header
which describes it's length.  Inside a packet there are sometime
multiprecision integers which do have a length description to.  If the 
length given for the MPI is larger than the reamining length of the
packet you will see this error.


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