[slug] Re: Ohhhh jeeee: ... this is a bug

[Nori Heikkinen]

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on Sat, 29 Mar 2003 10:40:57PM -0500, David Shaw insinuated:
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 09:45:14PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> > on Sat, 29 Mar 2003 09:34:52PM -0500, Gabe Rosenkoetter insinuated:
> > > > on Thu, 27 Mar 2003 10:54:42AM -0500, David Shaw insinuated:
> > > > > That error means "I did a lookup for a secret key in the
> > > > > secret keyring, and got back a public key.  Why is that in
> > > > > there?"
> > >=20
> > > Um, Nori, there isn't any chance that you did, in fact, add a
> > > public key to your secret key ring, is there?
> >=20
> > i guess anything is a possibility -- how might i have done that?
>=20
> Do you have something like
>=20
>   keyring secring.gpg
>=20
> in your gpg.conf or options file?  That would certainly fit your
> symptoms of everything working for a while and then suddenly the
> secret key was replaced by a public key.

nothing like it.  hm.

> > but:
> >=20
> > orange:~/.gnupg> gpg --no-comment --export-secret-key nori | gpg
> > --list-packets | grep public=20
> > :public key packet:=20
> > :public sub key packet:
> >=20
> > does that mean i did?
>=20
> It certainly means there is a public key in your secret keyring...

well, maybe that was the old one i thought i got rid of, because when
i replaced 'nori' with my keyID, the result went away.

thanks for your help,

</nori>

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      (please *remove* old key 11e031f1!)

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