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roguewolf

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From: UK

Registered: 2012-05-28

Posts: 32

Bad Signature Error When Signing With GPG

I'm trying to sign a public PGP key but am encountering a 'Bad signature' error:

gpg --edit-key someone@somedomain.com
...
gpg> sign
...
You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "My User <myuser@mydomain.com>"
2048-bit RSA key, ID 12345678, created 2012-01-01

I enter my passphrase then get:

gpg: checking created signature failed: Bad signature
gpg: signing failed: Bad signature
gpg: signing failed: Bad signature

I've done some searching online but can only find old, unrelated posts or ones relating to smart cards, which I'm not using.

The wording of the error seems to suggest that gpg is attempting to verify the signature it just created but is failing?

I have gnupg 2.0.25-1 installed and am running the above commands via a PuTTY ssh connection.

Any help gratefully received!