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I'm new to this and I need help generating a key pair.
I've installed GPG4Win, ticked all boxes except browser integration and it installs fine. when I load kleoparta it usually passes all tests. When i try to generate a key pair however I receive error message "Could not create key pair: Invalid packet"
Also, GPA won't load for me saying "GnuPG is rebuilding the trust database. This might take a few seconds." and never loads. It also says....
"The GPGME library has returned an unexpected error c.:105 The error was
Provided object was is short
This is either an installation issue or a bug in the GPA the GPA will now try and recover from this error.

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Older version of GnuPG had a rare bug in the keyring update code.

Please update to the latest gpg4win version and move %APPDATA%\GnuPG to a different location to start with a fresh keyring