Signature packets without (whatever)

Alphax alphasigmax at gmail.com
Sat Oct 29 11:59:19 CEST 2005


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David Shaw wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 12:08:55AM +0930, Alphax wrote:
> 
>>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?
> 
> 
> I doubt this is involved in any trustdb problems.  All versions of GPG
> ignore such signatures.  1.4.3 just ignores them quietly.
> 

Is there a way to actually GET RID OF THEM? I tried batch-cleaning my
entire keyring but it didn't help.

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