#20 GPG sender key for comp-sci books crashes kast client

[Stephan Rudlof]

Broadcasting at channel
comp-sci books
with its posted GPG sender key
comp-sci-owner-pubkey.asc
crashes the karst client.

Before I have renamed the sender key file to
comp-sci\ books.key
and moved it into the folder for the sender keys: the
channel appears in the broadcast menu then.

What differs from a self generated key file is the
format. This could be the start of the problem...
But how to come from the first to the second format
(I've tried with exporting the key from gpg after
importing it with no success).

comp-sci-owner-pubkey.asc :

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux)
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=XMO6
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

a test.key :

30820274020100300D06092A864886F70D01010105000482025E3082025A02010002818100FDBEC8
1CD388A09A4CE06C035676BD5F377048534D4CEBF874AF0E7AEF9811620C3E7536157F55A888FD25
D4EB0E6F9DEA5ECBCBD4B3BEBFD1A550FFC6CED0DB8E399BFFC17772B7030F7F3184933B074F9D12
582B0B37F8EB380A3C55F9D75DBFE416EE692F8BD22AA2E3FB10BE57AA9D0A009C46EB3EF509B240
000A0BD31902011102818001DDA35A909D3D6A8BDC00CB5193B25567EFE26A06372761D3AE76B1D8
5996B74F261B36FC64B3741010EB9281BA7586CEE6581634633439E18AA098780CD098301F076725
1B93E8E91FBC4897D4153687EA0BBA9443F8A8D8D3FFFBB93BAB96F4C5122663B34B8609482DAA29
EC74B583E60E9922E91E9606123F455F246FD1024100FE750E8DF3214F27AE6459B42D5DDED93C20
1ABF80A791929A223A0424D1E6B9AAD05255E3D06279B94D2B95155A62C1987D543888E90B8E04EA
6978BC93E4F9024100FF489EA617AF8FD37BCF1EECAE8A1735DF26BC79E6478CB32075D27DC974C8
720C6220338E1F0A2382FD75FFB5C5F47AF254EB093229F3B3CB1639ACC21C872102403BDF4EB7FC
F8C754A181060C46E8E9240E25ABF0D2FA405EBADAE07972134558DCE5B905268B6276FE6C82B9AA
ABDB00601D7D3A7A912FE52E5545FE4A7D26D10241008726721BB22FC49D236DA6F5C5D0A2E048F6
63C810803B6DE402242479B64C0024AC6B669688E73FFA0DB6F0C9A508F5CB965E50299DBD411129
E24C66C3CF1102403C5923AF9F9903671328657B73189A96EF6D5528E7D5ADC3E73F143180991FA5
FA73E7B3B8113E4AE75B11B068B6D2098ECC1F8F8D7C01A04F0A20F54143D0EF

[Stephan Rudlof]

log file

[Jason Rohrer]

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Looks like the GPG key is base-64 encoded, while the k2b key is hex encoded (base-16). I'm not sure if this is the only difference...

Do you know if GPG keys are RSA keys? If so, then a simple format conversion should work.

I'm not sure why kast would crash on the base-64 key, though... I'll look into it.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I have tried to convert the GPG key from base-64 by
perl -MMIME::Base64 -ne 'print decode_base64($_)' <
edit.key > /tmp/t
, and then
hexdump -C
with manually formatting the result... -> no success!

But there is at least one poster who uses the comp-sci books
channel frequently: the best would be to here from anyone
how he/she does it...

It may be possible that no one has tried the posted key so
far and just the originator posts into the channel (with
another key)...

What about a feedback mode for channels to broadcast
feedback just to the channel posters (those with sender
keys)? Then I could ask directly!

[Stephan Rudlof]

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Oops, this was me:

Date: 2003-06-22 06:58
Sender: nobody
Logged In: NO