weird error gpg

[René Berber]

On 6/24/2022 10:55 AM, Jim McNamara via Cygwin wrote:

> $ gpg --verify fedora.asc Fedora-KDE-Live-x86_64-36-1.5.iso
> gpg: can't handle text lines longer than 19995 characters
> gpg: Signature made Fri May  6 10:21:35 2022 EDT using RSA key ID 38AB71F4
> gpg: BAD signature from "Fedora (36) <fedora-36-primary@fedoraproject.org>"
> 
> I am having a difficult time. I think they are breaking into my computer.
> They made it so I can't verify files.
> 
> Is there any way I can fix it so that this error goes away?

Start by checking gpg itself.


$ which gpg
/usr/bin/gpg

$ gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.23
Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA
Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH,
         CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2

$ sha256sum /usr/bin/gpg
a72cb1fd7a1dcf94c7c8de2a2e749bce22f16af59c2b2157b01f73518e0bece7 
*/usr/bin/gpg


Or...

$ which gpg2
/usr/bin/gpg2

$ gpg2 --version
gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir '/home/reneb/.gnupg'
gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.35-unknown
libgcrypt 1.10.1-unknown
Copyright (C) 2022 g10 Code GmbH
License GNU GPL-3.0-or-later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Home: /home/reneb/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA, ECDH, ECDSA, EDDSA
Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH,
         CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256
Hash: SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2

$ sha256sum /usr/bin/gpg2
87f54df3c700c2bae6211cdb71540b8cc26b43bed60c8b2821e156e070c625f9 
*/usr/bin/gpg2

-- 
R.Berber