[Sks-devel] Re: zero-length MPIs (was: Re: mpi error with check-trustdb in 1.4.2 - resolved)

[Peter Palfrader]

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Jason Harris wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 12:02:17PM -0400, Jason Harris wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 10:30:09PM -0500, John Clizbe wrote:
>  
> > > Tracked down the two offending keys and deleted them with 1.4.1. They both
> > > failed to import from a keyserver with 1.4.2 with the same mpi error, so 
> > > I'm
> > > marking it off to key cruft.
> 
> Here are some more offending keys:
> 
>   0xA0B3E88B
>   0xFC05DA69
>   0x0FCF6738
>   0xCC78C893
>   0x98FDE37C
>   0x74C9DE33
>   0x57023F00 - corrupt subkey
> 
> Fetching them from keyserver.kjsl.com is now possible with gnupg-1.4.2.
> To patch pks, add this to the middle of decode_mpi() (in pgputil.c):
> 
>   /* skip packets with 0-length MPIs for GPG's benefit (gnupg-1.4.2) */
>   if (mpi->nbits == 0) {
>     return (0);
>   }

can we do that in SKS too?  please!

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