can't import keys into gnu pg

[Timo Schulz]

On Sat Jul 19 2003; 01:26, Apurva Mehta wrote:

> gpg: invalid armor header:
> mQGiBDfqVDgRBADBKr3Bl6PO8BQ0H8sJoD6p9U7Yyl7pjtZqioviPwXP+DCWd4u8
> 
> I get a similar message for _every_ public key I try to import. I have
> tried deleting my ~/.gnupg directory and starting from scratch but

It seems that the files are all broken. The RFC2440 format defines
an empty line to separate the headers and the data. Example:

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY-----
Version: GPG 99.1.2

mQGiBDfqVDgRBADBKr3Bl6PO8BQ0H8sJoD6p9U7Yyl7pjtZqioviPwXP+DCWd4u8
[more armor lines]
=foo
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY-----


If the armor lines follows immediately after the ------BEGIN PGP
header, something is wrong. Or if there is *no* empty line after
the Version (Comment) header!


        Timo

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