--ignore-crc-error (Was: Re: GnuPG fails to import some PGP keys)

Daniele Arena daniele@ripe.net
Thu, 14 Dec 2000 11:58:28 +0100 (CET)


Hi Werner,

I just came back on my original key-loading problem after almost two
months; you said you would implement the option "--ignore-crc-error", but
I just checked out gnupg from CVS and didn't find it. Am I just dumb or
did you change your mind?

Cheers,

Daniele.

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Werner Koch wrote:


> > > The CRC does make sense to protect against transmission errors but
> > > there is no cryptograhic reason why it is needed. Two solutions:
> > >
> > > a) Write a utility to regenerate the CRC
> > > b) Implement --ignore-crc-error in gpg
> > >
> > > Probably you want me to implement solution b - should not be a
> > > problem.
> >
> > If you could implement the b), that would be great.
>
> Done - will show up in the CVS soon.
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