Signature packets without (whatever)

[Doug Barton]

Erwan David wrote:
> Le Tue 25/10/2005, Alphax disait
> 
>>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>Hash: SHA256
>>
>>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?
>>
>>Or should I just batch-clean the lot?
> 
> 
> I got this when I retrieved the PGP GD key via hkp.
> REmoving this key from my keyring was enough to suppress those
> messages.

I had a similar problem with the version of the key that I received from
hkp. I downloaded the key from http://keyserver.pgp.com/ and imported it by
hand, and didn't have these problems any more.

hth,

Doug

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