Package: gnupg Version: 2.1.14-5 Severity: normal I am unable to import my secret key to gpg2.
------------------------8<------------------------------ rak@zeta:~/.gnupg$ gpg1 --list-secret-keys /home/rak/.gnupg/secring.gpg ---------------------------- sec 1024D/E95EDDC9 2006-02-22 [snip] ssb 2048g/74FCFC3F 2006-02-22 ssb 4096R/8C1ACB57 2006-11-07 ssb 4096R/9E1F3B91 2006-11-07 sec 10240R/4A11C97A 2009-09-23 [expires: 2016-01-25] [snip] ssb 10240R/0F5E9C64 2009-09-24 [snip] rak@zeta:~/.gnupg$ gpg1 --export-secret-keys 0F5E9C64 --armor > 0F5E9C64.asc rak@zeta:~/.gnupg$ gpg --import 0F5E9C64.asc gpg: key 8F7BF8FC4A11C97A: "Ryan Kavanagh <r...@debian.org>" not changed gpg: key 8F7BF8FC4A11C97A/8F7BF8FC4A11C97A: error sending to agent: Too much data for IPC layer gpg: error building skey array: Too much data for IPC layer gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: unchanged: 1 gpg: secret keys read: 1 rak@zeta:~/.gnupg$ gpg --list-secret-keys /home/rak/.gnupg/pubring.kbx ---------------------------- sec dsa1024 2006-02-22 [SC] 4EBE56CB0EFECBED2A928D4F7BD15207E95EDDC9 [snip] ssb elg2048 2006-02-22 [E] ------------------------8<------------------------------ This may be because my key is "stupidly long" (cf. [0]). I admit, it is stupidly long, but I generated it years ago and am stuck with it. So could we please maintain support for it? Best wishes, Ryan [0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=739424#10 -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_CA.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages gnupg depends on: ii gnupg-agent 2.1.14-5 ii libassuan0 2.4.3-1 ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-8 ii libc6 2.23-4 ii libgcrypt20 1.7.2-2 ii libgpg-error0 1.24-1 ii libksba8 1.3.4-4 ii libreadline6 6.3-8+b4 ii libsqlite3-0 3.14.1-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 Versions of packages gnupg recommends: ii dirmngr 2.1.14-5 ii gnupg-l10n 2.1.14-5 Versions of packages gnupg suggests: pn parcimonie <none> pn xloadimage <none> -- no debconf information -- |_)|_/ Ryan Kavanagh | GPG: 4E46 9519 ED67 7734 268F | \| \ https://ryanak.ca/ | BD95 8F7B F8FC 4A11 C97A