[aklug] Re: Ecartis and PGP

From: barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net>
Date: Tue Apr 28 2009 - 13:27:15 AKDT

Quoting Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us>:

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> I noticed that my mail clients (Mutt & Thunderbird) are not able to
> verify most of the PGP sigs sent to the AKLUG. It seems like this is
> because Ecartis converts the attached sig to inline text, and then
> inserts extra text between the sig and the message text ("-- Attached
> file included as plaintext... etc.") So Thunderbird just says
> "Error - No valid armored OpenPGP data block found".
>
> But Kenneth's sig seems to be verifiable, as he includes his inline from
> the start, with "start PGP" and "end PGP" delimiters.
>
> Has the list every discussed this problem? Does the list server need to
> mangle the messages this way? Or do we all need to switch over to real
> inline sigs? (I thought I heard inline sigs were kind of outdated.)

I'll pass this along to our list administrator. It is possible that =20
someone else on the list might have some history about that, however.

Mike B.

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