Question on GnuPG keys

[Wouter van Heyst]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 04:12:38PM -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> John Whitley wrote:
> > John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> >> Martin Pool's key that I have is A0B3E88B
> >>
> >> If I do a search for 'mbp at sourcefrog.net' I can see the key is available
> >> on subkeys.pgp.net. It happens to be the 6th key when searching for just
> >> plain "Martin Pool".
> >>
> >> You also can't do 'gpg --search-key A0B3E88B' but you can do
> >> gpg --recv-key A0B3E88B
> > 
> > Thanks.  I now realize that gpg on Cygwin appears to be having issues
> > with this key (e.g. it imports fine on OS X from subkeys.pgp.net).  
> > Between that and various key searches failing I was misinterpreting
> > Cygwin's failure.  I'll go dig to see if this bug needs reporting...
> > 
> > -- John
> 
> It could very easily be the gpg version. I believe one version of gpg
> (maybe 1.4.2) had problems with keys with certain sizes. Are you getting
> some sort of 'Invalid ... size, 2 bytes'?
> 
> I believe the solution is to either revert to 1.4.1, or upgrade to
> 1.4.3. I don't believe 1.4.3 is officially available, so use setup.exe
> to revert to 1.4.1.

1.4.5 was released yesterday, fixing a security flaw.

Wouter van Heyst