Signing problems...

Ted Cabeen secabeen@pobox.com
Fri, 16 Jun 2000 15:28:02 -0500


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In message <200006161918.OAA19712@entropy.uchicago.edu>, Ted Cabeen writes:

>I'm using GPG 1.0.1 with exmh 2.1.2 and am having problems with gnupg. What
>what I can tell, exmh is running gpg with a command line that generates bad
>signatures. Here's the data I have:
>
>The command line (I removed the comment & batch options):
>gpg --status-fd 2 --no-greeting --load-extension /usr/local/lib/gnupg/idea \
>--load-extension /usr/local/lib/gnupg/tiger \
>--load-extension /usr/local/lib/gnupg/rsa --cipher-algo 3des \
>--digest-algo sha1 --compress-algo 1 -abt -u 0xBA0349D2 \
>-o /tmp/0.pgp.18706.exmh /tmp/0.msg.18706.exmh
I found the bug. With the above command line, GPG chokes on input lines that end in a space character. It will generate a signature, but that signature will not match the original text, with the trailing space. -- Ted Cabeen http://www.pobox.com/~secabeen secabeen@pobox.com Check Website or finger for PGP/GPG Public Key secabeen@uchicago.edu "I have taken all knowledge to be my province." -F. Bacon secabeen@cabeen.org "Human kind cannot bear very much reality."-T.S.Eliot cabeen@netcom.com --==_Exmh_-1860941946P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (SunOS) Comment: Exmh version 2.1.2 06/08/2000 iEYEARECAAYFAjlKjdEACgkQoayJfLoDSdKEewCdFTTphNvmIXQ2lgGRrrYkXyYC i04AoLCSmf2zCsdyxktLI6+S5BfFIJPf =238a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1860941946P--