[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#796712: Bug#796712: gnupg2: Hangs when sending key to keyserver

[Werner Koch]

Hi!

Your key is with 871k even longer than Zack's key and dirmngr chokes on
it.  Here is a patch:

>From 84f4c8811fc5bdd78693c4dc289389a8337cc257 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 21:16:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] dirmngr: Allow sending of Zack's key.

* dirmngr/server.c (MAX_KEYBLOCK_LENGTH): Increase to 1 MiB.

Signed-off-by: Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org>
---
 dirmngr/server.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dirmngr/server.c b/dirmngr/server.c
index 1b7e9e9..5c142e8 100644
--- a/dirmngr/server.c
+++ b/dirmngr/server.c
@@ -59,8 +59,9 @@
 
 /* The same goes for OpenPGP keyblocks, but here we need to allow for
    much longer blocks; a 200k keyblock is not too unusual for keys
-   with a lot of signatures (e.g. 0x5b0358a2).  */
-#define MAX_KEYBLOCK_LENGTH (512*1024)
+   with a lot of signatures (e.g. 0x5b0358a2).  9C31503C6D866396 even
+   has 770 KiB as of 2015-08-23.  */
+#define MAX_KEYBLOCK_LENGTH (1024*1024)
 
 
 #define PARM_ERROR(t) assuan_set_error (ctx, \
-- 
2.1.4


I will look into the problem of not returning a proper error code and
not to hang.  And the 1 MiB limit won't help for too long.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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