Signature packets without (whatever)

Alphax alphasigmax at gmail.com
Tue Oct 25 16:38:55 CEST 2005


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David Shaw wrote:
> 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.
> 

It's not dying, just warning me... however, I think they might be
responsible for my trustb becoming corrupt last week. Will 1.4.3
automatically remove such signatures or merely ignore them?

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