On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:28:39PM +0200, Gerhard Siegesmund wrote: > > I've also seen similar "corruption" recently (with GPG 1.4.1): > > %gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.sascha.silbe.org --recv CA57AD7C > > Host: keyserver.sascha.silbe.org > > Command: GET > > gpgkeys: HTTP URL is > > `hkp://keyserver.sascha.silbe.org/pks/lookup?op=get&options=mr&search=0xCA57AD7C' > > gpg: buffer shorter than subpacket > [...] > > This seems to be a common problem? I recently found the same errors, but > didn't care about them. Is is something I should be concerned about?
No, not really (at least if you see them on a keyserver like in the example). The copy of the key on the keyserver is corrupt. GnuPG will do a reasonable amount of repair as it imports, and generally ends up with a usable key. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
