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Re: GPG killing PGP?

1998-05-04 01:18:35
Bill Stewart <stewarts(_at_)ix(_dot_)netcom(_dot_)com> writes:

Yow!  I tried importing this into PGP 5.5.3 QU2, using the
Eudora 3.0.5 PGP plugin, and it crashed with a dialog box saying
      This program has performed an illegal operation
      and will be shot down.
I tried saving the key in a file and importing into PGP,
and it also died with the same kind of dialog box.

This is a listing of the key.

:compressed packet: algo=2

Maybe this is the problem.  Compress algo 2 is standard zlib
compression - what about adding this to OpenPGP?  And while doing
that, isn't it worth to add an identifier for bzip2.


:public key packet:
        version 3, created 894195413, valid for 0 days
        elg p: [1024 bits]
        elg g: [3 bits]
        elg y: [1020 bits]
:OpenPGP draft comment packet: "#created by GNUPG v0.2.16 (Linux)"
:user id packet: "Neva Remailer <remailer(_at_)neva(_dot_)org>"
:signature packet: keyid 303BEDD769760438
        version 3, created 894195413, md5len 5, sigclass 13
        digest algo 3, begin of digest 92 2d
        elg a: [1023 bits]
        elg b: [1023 bits]
pub  1024G/69760438 1998-05-03 Neva Remailer <remailer(_at_)neva(_dot_)org>
sig        69760438 1998-05-03   Neva Remailer <remailer(_at_)neva(_dot_)org>


It is RFC1991 with an OpenPGP packet of type 16 used for the comment. 
You cannot expect that PGP understands this - but it should not
SIGSEGV.


Werner


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