Signature packets without (whatever)

Alphax alphasigmax at gmail.com
Mon Oct 31 07:31:59 CET 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.
> 

Um... *bump* on 1.4.3, I just discovered that this (like all error
messages) is killing Enigmail.

Any way of finding the offending keys and cleaning them manually?

Oh yeah, "clean total" would be good for fixing this too...

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