[Sks-devel] Re: Gnupg or keyserver bug?

[Jason Harris]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:25:43AM +0200, Kevin Bube wrote:

> yesterday I encountered a gpg error while I tried to import a key from a
> keyserver. This is the first key where I saw this.
> 
> ,----
> | address@hidden:~/tmp $ gpg --keyserver blackhole.pca.dfn.de --homedir /tmp 
> --recv-key EAE8EB6A
> | gpg: keyring `/tmp/secring.gpg' created
> | gpg: keyring `/tmp/pubring.gpg' created
> | gpg: requesting key EAE8EB6A from hkp server blackhole.pca.dfn.de
> | 
> | gpg: Ohhhh jeeee: mpi crosses packet border
> | secmem usage: 0/0 bytes in 0/0 blocks of pool 0/32768
> | Aborted

blackhole.pca.dfn.de needs to be upgraded to the latest version of SKS.

> However if I use another keyserver this works:
> 
> ,----
> | address@hidden:~/tmp $ gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --homedir /tmp 
> --recv-key EAE8EB6A

> Is this a GnuPG problem or one of the keyserver?

Development versions of GPG may be able to import this key with the bad
subkey packet, which is attached.  It should hash to:

  %esha1sum 000467-014.public_subkey
  95f35324cb36b57265f37c85860001af0045fa68     1040  000467-014.public_subkey

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000467-014.public_subkey
Description: Binary data

pgpRFImooZYFc.pgp
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