Trying to figure out what's going on with a key update failure...

Stephan Beck stebe at mailbox.org
Sat Nov 26 22:38:00 CET 2016


Anthony Papillion:
> On 11/25/2016 4:02 AM, Stephan Beck wrote:
>> Hi Anthony,
>>
> No problem. When I try to decrypt your message, I get the follow from GPG:
> 
> gpg: invalid radix64 character 2D skipped
> gpg: invalid radix64 character 2D skipped
> gpg: invalid radix64 character 2D skipped
> gpg: invalid radix64 character 2D skipped
> 
> You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
> user: "Anthony Papillion <anthony at cajuntechie.org>"
> 4096-bit RSA key, ID 0x002919C90AF4A3BC, created 2016-10-12
>          (subkey on main key ID 0xCC9D1E072AC97369)
> 
> gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
> 
>> In order to get the details of the communication of keyserver helper
>> programs with the keyserver you should use the --use-temp-files and
>> --keep-temp-files --keyserver options.
>>
>> For example, I tried (a hundred times, with variations) to refresh your
>> key attempting to log keyserver<->helpers communication to check it
>> myself before giving advice
> 
> After some testing, I found out that the keys were, in some/most cases
> actually getting refreshed. I'm going to try with the new options and
> see what information I can coax out of GPG.

Thanks, Anthony. I'll have a look into libpgp-error, maybe I can find
some info. The message may have been altered (tampered).

Cheers

Stephan






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