probs w/ uncompressed encapsulating signature files

[Werner Koch]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, David Hallinan wrote:

> I'm signing some files without compression, but gpg is then
> having problems verifying its own output.  I've hand parsed
> gpg's output using rfc 2440, and it looks fine.  The output
> is a one pass signature packet, followed by a literal data
> packet (with binary data), followed by a signature packet.

Fixed.  As a workaround use 

  gpg --no-armor --verify

The problem was that one pass signatures are not detected as binary
data but it tries to apply the unarmor filter.  There should be 
a backoff method in case no armor header has been found, but this
get's complicated so we stick to the current (fixed) solution.

Thanks,

  Werner   


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