Signature packets without (whatever)

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Tue Oct 25 16:35:49 CEST 2005


On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:53:51PM +0930, Alphax wrote:
> Recently, when checking my trustb I get the following appearing:
> 
> gpg: buffer shorter than subpacket
> gpg: signature packet without keyid
> gpg: buffer shorter than subpacket
> gpg: buffer shorter than subpacket
> gpg: signature packet without timestamp
> gpg: buffer shorter than subpacket
> gpg: signature packet without keyid
> gpg: buffer shorter than subpacket
> 
> Now, I figured that cleaning the keys would probably fix this, but the
> question is: how do I find the offending keys?

Given that one of the errors is a signature packet without a
keyid... it's hard to locate the signature :)

You could do trickery with gpgsplit and such, but I'd wait until 1.4.3
is out.  It doesn't error on such signatures any longer.

David



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