Thus spake "Kiss Gabor (Bitman)": > I cannot imagine how this dump could be created. > Could the attacker upload broken packets or is it "sks dump" > who garbled the dump file? Or file became bad during > compression/decompression?
I don't think sks does much validation of packets so anything could be uploaded. I've found in the past with broken dumps that hkt from hopenpgp-tools works fairly well as a filter. It manages to skip broken keys and carry on while GnuPG just aborts at the first badly broken key. William