gpg: ECDSA public key is expected to be in SEC encoding multiple of 8 bits

Brian Minton brian at minton.name
Thu Nov 20 17:21:40 CET 2014


oops, I meant to say I have an ECDH and EDDSA subkey, but no ECDSA.

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Brian Minton <brian at minton.name> wrote:
> I'm seeing an interesting message when encrypting and signing with my
> ECDSA/EDDSA subkeys.  The encryption and signing seems to work, so
> it's mainly just an informational message:
>
> bminton at bminton:~$ echo hi|gpg2 -u 0424DC19B678A1A9 -r 0424DC19B678A1A9 -a -e -s
> gpg: ECDSA public key is expected to be in SEC encoding multiple of 8 bits
> -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
> Version: GnuPG v2
>
> [snip]
> -----END PGP MESSAGE-----
> bminton at bminton:~$ echo hi|gpg2 -u 0424DC19B678A1A9 -r
> 0424DC19B678A1A9 -a -e -s|gpg2
> gpg: ECDSA public key is expected to be in SEC encoding multiple of 8 bits
> gpg: encrypted with 384-bit ECDH key, ID EA49CFDB55D113E9, created 2014-10-12
>       "Brian Minton <brian at minton.name>"
> hi
> gpg: Signature made Thu Nov 20 11:06:18 2014 EST
> gpg:                using EDDSA key 37B9507ACFF2016E
> gpg: Good signature from "Brian Minton <brian at minton.name>" [ultimate]
> gpg:                 aka "Brian Minton <bjmgeek at gmail.com>" [ultimate]



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