when running gnorpm-auth group ID is not properly changed to root anymore- it retains the groupid of the spawning user- which may represent a security hole. I am finding the groupIO of my usual console user ID all over the system ever since I upgraded to the new gnorpm-auth which was a rerelease of the non-functioning gnorpm-auth recently released.(gnorpm package) in order to be safe I must now run 'su -c gnorpm' rather than gnorpm-auth.
In gnorpm-0.96, gnorpm.keys no longer mentions gnorpm-auth by default.