validate_key_list failed

[Jason Harris]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 12:33:07PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 04:15:47PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:

> > After adding some keys recently, I always get:

> > gpg: mpi larger than indicated length (2 bytes)
> > gpg: keyring_get_keyblock: read error: invalid packet
> > gpg: keyring_get_keyblock failed: invalid keyring

> > How can I fix this?
> > Or how can I find out which key it is, so I can remove it
> > (as workaround)?
> 
> FWIW, I've been getting the same with the FreeBSD port of gnupg-1.4.2.
> I've reverted to using 1.4.1 for the present.

Try running pgpring (part of mutt):

  %pgpring -S -k ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg

and/or pgpdump:

  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/security/pgpdump/pkg-descr

  %pgpdump [-i] ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg

on the keyring(s) to help find any corruption.

(I've not seen any such problems on FreeBSD 4.x with GPG 1.4.2.)

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