[aklug] Re: Ecartis and PGP

From: Shane Spencer <shane@bogomip.com>
Date: Tue Apr 28 2009 - 16:58:55 AKDT

I believe it is a long line problem. If I recall correctly some list
services rewrite content that may contain unicode charactors,
translate html mail bodies to text mail bodies, and do other such
witchery.

PGP/GPG sigs on content that gets changed even by one 'bit' will be invalid=
.

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:27 PM, barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net> wrote:
> 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 (I thought I heard inline sigs were kind of outdated.)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. =A0It is possible that =
=3D20
> someone else on the list might have some history about that, however.
>
> Mike B.
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