Gnupg cannot handle extremely large keys on 32 bit Linux

[David Shaw]

On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 11:09:42AM +0300, Charly Avital wrote:
> David Shaw wrote the following on 4/14/07 2:57 AM:
> > On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 01:00:13AM +0300, Charly Avital wrote:
> > 
> >> Running gpg 1.4.7 under Mac OSX 10.4.9
> >> -------------------------------------------
> >> pub  16384R/17CACAE3  created: 2007-04-07  expires: never       usage: SCEA
> >>                      trust: unknown       validity: unknown
> >> [ unknown] (1). Testing only <test at test.test>
> >>
> >> Command> check
> >> uid  Testing only <test at test.test>
> >> sig!3        2D879666 2007-04-07  [User ID not found]
> >> 1 user ID without valid self-signature detected
> > 
> > I cannot confirm this.  I tested GPG 1.4.7 on OSX 10.4.9 running on
> > both PPC and Intel.  The 16k key works correctly on both.  Can you
> > double check your report?
> > 
> > David
> 
> David,
> 
> I have gone through the same process as described in my message sent
> from a PPC.
> 
> I find exactly the *same results* in this Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook.

Just to be clear, it does not work for you on either PPC or Intel?  In
both cases you get the incorrect key ID?  (Is it 17CACAE3 both times?)

David