Invalid public key - GPA

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Hi, I downloaded GPA (Gpg4win) and am having difficulty with my public key. I had tried to use it within a web site and an error came back saying it was not a valid key. I then downloaded GPA on another computer and tried to import the public key into the first laptop. Error said no keys found in the text file.

There must be something in the settings as far as I can tell, even though I followed the instructions very carefully. Here is the key…maybe someone can figure out what I am missing.

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32)

mQENBFQLTaoBCADRtDYYA/FuhZIqssc5inGHN8fwkvAJHVmG2OVuTktxT9JEW2ML

5auzKz8AXAaIs9fPQEauu0KAXd6atgxKVMizFiZhZA67iD9HMpvOx7SDSAnbTg2M

ghg92sBsi+ou6etrwpXSxgu18HShqjUC6f0G2z+sjfcSv4fnNroWr9cFxP3LtixB

XkULgsnJViLPK+trFFYWdJsRhezztvwtKAuclCWhWEPCilwiQkYG+Mo5IkileUB7

mnsXU9BOhSNkiq1c2R5Jreent52hZPruuTVKo2qqecs/PK0B4Zcyxfa3GrJ5oO/j

rQ1fc733aaV3x1Tg1s3vsBoV5cev5076PtbdABEBAAG0HGRlZXBzdGVyIDxudG1l

a3RyQHIyc3NoLmNvbT6JATkEEwECACMFAlQLTaoCGwMHCwkIBwMCAQYVCAIJCgsE

FgIDAQIeAQIXgAAKCRBy9KHO78WzIdMDCACdlai5WmbqFuIFlPWwGM5KVz+fAjrJ

LFAkwqTw2JGJ/rRr0L14pmkrn+NgLGY4Z1LsuDOWURmBrpZ1IDJkrT3HJ+Eldrip

gonvHUMLhrF+2T92CUm6og3W32sGL0y0Un63uelHDE9aO/oDI9wfqWySgUnlmE8T

z7oax+dlfFCbbPp+36kiMjmtLLQJC/aDjsMqSXb8OqKCmIBH705bi79sgq9CSGM+

p2Nc0nyK9uta7Z4KwUdXWh+r1ZSmn0z2Mu8WO54qdLwZzCQu0oevzO4qOoyeYJr4

IVd030zlCOPJordLOhohyUyHX3CURsTlB479ElQJK0urtyvOOTHo9haYuQENBFQL

TaoBCAC2x5il1XoZKsUjdDa0dcXtEJgD+8BP3rb8aFvSppPzoK956ms1CqKdnE6f

mID+Nk+jr6MjN40xbKfMtmBKaBYYm01bvAkAX2+kIaQKi6PrFE5LEYHNlqTRIqEn

X19WF6PBCbOK+SCVi+rrPU9yxYpRwJdDnh97lknIBM+ZJL0i19vjA5qabEaAhvLb

c64Rb6hwFPQIGx9a94dNPaoNLkMwidU0JkiQ6Hpg2RrMENGPqVRRHlHGQBjTgHAM

YzIVHkQs5bE/v3pQL/ODidNGdvs54rDWKMZrW4KImVPXeZwTuC8TwCyW/NflJDZg

/ic9kDypx5AOjoztbvNDNOL/d/jFABEBAAGJAR8EGAECAAkFAlQLTaoCGwwACgkQ

cvShzu/FsyFW0gf+NFsDi/RIF7WiYwrDuN4IyQx+0NK8lEwGxpy4PTg4b2aMODcG

1gFtc7GUJQC/p374eHcYcsDyT2qOt6CcrZwGitr8fLOhbgIVN30cjTuOlGJMN4mF

AtC15qjC5TI7Mv0hgTLIfsD4tPbBeWXU0GEJxxc16NDmLz0hCbvOz/qdEshXpUO3

qg1L00dRslbQR+lCbUjs0BuWHQDIPjwcC12gwyjhgmV7JAbzfvM0XccliMFlfyv5

w4B8haY+onrcOCJt/VX5rY6+MnZ2OrsmBt9RrOS6Y7fVVm1s2tX2eWyhQXGY+RnC

gGG4D5Ah8aSc6c1P0MDXX+NiToWFzoUxX2VL2g==

=3lpE

-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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Looks like your public key is corrupted- it has a load of blank lines (so must have a lot of return characters). I cannot import it as it is. Have you copied it between windows and linux file systems?

If I remove all the blank lines, I can import a key :

gpg: invalid armour header: mQENBFQLTaoBCADRtDYYA/FuhZIqssc5inGHN8fwkvAJHVmG2OVuTktxT9JEW2ML\n
pub 2048R/0x72F4A1CEEFC5B321 2014-09-06 deepster ntmektr@r2ssh.com
Key fingerprint = 8CCD C69C 8B0D 28FF 8C7E 011E 72F4 A1CE EFC5 B321
sig 0x72F4A1CEEFC5B321 2014-09-06 [selfsig]
sub 2048R/0xF98F183338564F4F 2014-09-06
sig 0x72F4A1CEEFC5B321 2014-09-06 [keybind]

But there is still some problem remaining - you see there is still invalid armour header.

Do you have an original uncorrupted copy ? If not, can you just scrap it and start again with making a new key pair?

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Sorry - the invalid armour error was down to me (I hadn’t left a blank line at the beginning):

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
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=3lpE
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

gives the following :

pub 2048R/0x72F4A1CEEFC5B321 2014-09-06 deepster ntmektr@r2ssh.com
Key fingerprint = 8CCD C69C 8B0D 28FF 8C7E 011E 72F4 A1CE EFC5 B321
sig 0x72F4A1CEEFC5B321 2014-09-06 [selfsig]
sub 2048R/0xF98F183338564F4F 2014-09-06
sig 0x72F4A1CEEFC5B321 2014-09-06 [keybind]

But your original version still had all those blank lines in that caused the problem.

Philip