Re: [Sks-devel] Invalid Packet on SKS 1.1.0 (SKS 1.0.10 OK)

[John Marshall]

On Sat, 23 May 2009, 17:04 +1000, John Marshall wrote:
> On Fri, 22 May 2009, 10:45 -0700, Phil Pennock wrote:
> > On 2009-05-22 at 19:49 +1000, John Marshall wrote:
> > > Attempts to use GnuPG 2.0.11 to retrieve a particular key from any sks
> > > 1.1.0 keyserver fails with an "Invalid packet" error.  Retrieval of the
> > > same key from any 1.0.10 keyserver is successful.
> > 
> > I have gpg and gpg2 installed; gpg2 is 2.0.11 and I see the problem you
> > described, gpg is 1.4.9 and works fine.
> 
> Thanks Phil,
> 
> I have verified your findings and have raised this issue with the GnuPG
> developers:
> 
> <http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2009-May/025133.html>

This turned out to be a gpg2 problem - a bug in libgcrypt where
libgcrypt 1.4.n was behaving differently to GnuPG 1.4.n.  The fix is to
be included in libgcrypt 1.5.0.  Until then, there is a patch for gpg2:

<http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2009-May/025143.html>

-- 
John Marshall

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