I'm using 0.9.3, and I'm also using the RSA and IDEA extensions for the
sake of experimentation. (My home PC is running FreeBSD 2.2.8.)
I tried to import an RSA key pair. (I did this previously, without any
difficulty, under 0.9.2.)
I imported the public key OK, but I couldn't import the secret key. I
kept getting messages such as the following:
gpg:[stdin]: key A6A59DB9: secret key not found: public key not found
gpg:[stdin]: read error: public key not found
gpg: Total number processed: 0
gpg: secret keys read: 1
gpg: import failed: public key not found
I tried importing the secret key both with an "empty" passphrase (as
described in Caskey Dickson's instructions) and with the passphrase
intact (which seemed to work fine under 0.9.2 once I installed the RSA
extension code). Neither way worked.
I then tried to delete the public key (in order to start over fresh),
but this wouldn't work either. I got the following error:
gpg: 0a6a59db9: get secret key: public key not found
After beating my head against the wall (figuratively speaking) for about
an hour, I decided to go back to using 0.9.2 -- whereupon everything
worked like a charm.
So, it would appear that something in the keyring management routines
broke between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3. Any ideas?
I'm not sure, BTW, why the problem arose. I suppose it could be any of
the following:
==> the fact that the key was an RSA key generated by PGP 2.6.x
==> the fact that the key ID started with a letter (even though
I escaped it on the command line with a leading zero)
==> the fact that the key ID's high order bit was a 1
==> some weird bug triggered by this particular key ID
==> something else entirely?
Rich Wales richw@webcom.com http://www.webcom.com/richw/
sake of experimentation. (My home PC is running FreeBSD 2.2.8.)
I tried to import an RSA key pair. (I did this previously, without any
difficulty, under 0.9.2.)
I imported the public key OK, but I couldn't import the secret key. I
kept getting messages such as the following:
gpg:[stdin]: key A6A59DB9: secret key not found: public key not found
gpg:[stdin]: read error: public key not found
gpg: Total number processed: 0
gpg: secret keys read: 1
gpg: import failed: public key not found
I tried importing the secret key both with an "empty" passphrase (as
described in Caskey Dickson's instructions) and with the passphrase
intact (which seemed to work fine under 0.9.2 once I installed the RSA
extension code). Neither way worked.
I then tried to delete the public key (in order to start over fresh),
but this wouldn't work either. I got the following error:
gpg: 0a6a59db9: get secret key: public key not found
After beating my head against the wall (figuratively speaking) for about
an hour, I decided to go back to using 0.9.2 -- whereupon everything
worked like a charm.
So, it would appear that something in the keyring management routines
broke between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3. Any ideas?
I'm not sure, BTW, why the problem arose. I suppose it could be any of
the following:
==> the fact that the key was an RSA key generated by PGP 2.6.x
==> the fact that the key ID started with a letter (even though
I escaped it on the command line with a leading zero)
==> the fact that the key ID's high order bit was a 1
==> some weird bug triggered by this particular key ID
==> something else entirely?
Rich Wales richw@webcom.com http://www.webcom.com/richw/