Re: [PLUG] GPG question

["eric@lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org>]

Thanks.  That's actually my key from 5 years ago.  A friend signed
it with all his different keys - God alone knows why.

Now I understand - the program complains when it encounters that key
in the keyring - not when it's trying to acutally use it.

I cannot delete it either.  Perhaps if I remember the passphrase
then I could issue a revocation cert for it?

Eric

On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 02:51:17AM -0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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> > I'm still working on the "secret key witghout public key" issue.
> 
> It's not you, it's the owner of that particular key:
> 
> $ gpg -v --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key 0xE1D5DBC3
> gpg: requesting key E1D5DBC3 from pgp.mit.edu ...
> gpg: armor header: Version: 5.0
> gpg: armor header: Comment: PGP Key Server 0.9.4+patch2
> gpg: pub  1024R/E1D5DBC3 1997-01-31   Eric A. Lucas <lucas@op.net>
> gpg: key E1D5DBC3: skipped user ID 'Eric A. Lucas <lucas@op.net>'
> gpg: key E1D5DBC3: no valid user IDs
> gpg: this may be caused by a missing self-signature
> gpg: Total number processed: 1
> gpg:           w/o user IDs: 1
> 
> Seems that there is no uid set for this key. Matter of fact:
> 
> $ gpg --fingerprint 0xE1D5DBC
> gpg: error reading key: malformed user id
> 
> Ugh. Taking a look at their listing on keyserver.net:
> 
> http://search.keyserver.net:11371/pks/lookup?template=netensearch&search=0xE1D5DBC3&op=vindex
> 
> it seems that the key was signed 6 times, 5 of which are the same person 
> using different keys, and all of them within a month of each other, 
> back in 1997. I'd discard it: hopefully M. Lucas has a non-broken 
> key now. :)
> 
> 
> Uh oh. I just tried to delete it, but:
> 
> $ gpg --delete-key 0xE1D5DBC 
> gpg: 0xE1D5DBC: delete key failed: malformed user id
> 
> Erg. I gotta bad feeling about this. Good thing I keep a backup of 
> my (public) keyring handy. Anyone know a way to actually remove it?
> 
> Greg Sabino Mullane  greg@turnstep.com
> PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200202182147
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