corrupted secret keyring

[Brian M. Carlson]

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On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 04:25:53PM -0400, David Shaw wrote:
> It's not terribly elegant, but you can use gpgsplit (comes with 1.0.7
> and later) to break your secret keyring into its component packets,
> delete the evil key, and then reassemble.

Elegance is unimportant to me right now. I am all for hacks as long as
they work.
=20
> Basically:
>=20
> 1) cd ~/.gnupg ; mkdir temp; cd temp
> 2) gpgsplit ../secring.gpg
> 3) Find which of the "secret_key" packets is the bad one (run gpg on
>    it to print out the key id) and delete it and the other packets
>    that go along with it (i.e. delete everything until the next
>    "secret_key").
> 4) cat * > newsecring.gpg

The key is a v2 key, 1024 bits, protected with IDEA (which I don't use).
I think it was that the key had the encrypted MPI length problem.

> Then backup your current secring, and give newsecring.gpg a try.

Excellent. It works beautifully.

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