[gentoo-dev] Problems with gnupg 1.4.1 and PGP Global Directory

[Gustavo Felisberto]

The folks at pgp.com have this nice service
https://keyserver1.pgp.com/vkd/GetWelcomeScreen.event where they
perodicly send out prob emails to confirm that a e-mail adress is still
alive. You can then have you key signed by them. To use these features
one must have theire key in your local keyring.

This is all very noce, but today i noticed i did not have psi (jabber
client) running with gnupg support. As i maintain that package and had
just placed a new version on portage i was expecting a flood of bugs.
After countless hours of building psi/qt/gnupg i noticed that on some
commands gnupg gave a strange message:
gpg: buffer shorter than subpacket

After some digging i found some messages:

http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2005-June/025952.html

The problem is between gnupg and the PGP Global Directory Verification
Key (0xCA57AD7C) .

As strange as it seems removing the key with a gpg --delete-keys
0xCA57AD7C and importing it again seems to have solved the problems.


-- 
Gustavo Felisberto
(HumpBack)
Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~humpback
Blog: http://blog.felisberto.net/
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