Clearsigning (again)

[Gael Queri]

Hello brian, sorry to interrupt your conversation with yourself :)
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 03:36:23PM -0700, brian moore wrote:
> (...)
> But the dropping-the-trailing-newline doesn't require PGP5, so I'm still
> convinced this is solely a gnupg problem:
> 
> [thorin:~] 3:34:15pm 288 % echo foo > foo
> [thorin:~] 3:34:20pm 289 % md5sum foo
> d3b07384d113edec49eaa6238ad5ff00  foo
> [thorin:~] 3:34:27pm 290 % gpg -sat foo
> 
> You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
> user: "brian moore <bem at cmc.net>"
> 1024-bit DSA key, ID 88322B51, created 1998-10-17
> 
> [thorin:~] 3:34:44pm 291 % gpg foo.asc
> File `foo' exists. Overwrite (y/N)? y
> gpg: Signature made Thu May 25 15:34:44 2000 PDT using DSA key ID 88322B51
> gpg: Good signature from "brian moore <bem at cmc.net>"
> gpg:                 aka "brian moore <bem at thorin.cmc.net>"
> gpg:                 aka "brian moore <bem at news.cmc.net>"
> [thorin:~] 3:34:52pm 292 % md5sum foo
> 2145971cf82058b108229a3a2e3bff35  foo
> 
> I still don't think gnupg should do that. :)

It seems to be fixed in gnupg 1.0.1e, so you were at least not the only one
to think that :-)

gael at baoule:~$ echo foo > foo
gael at baoule:~$ md5sum foo
d3b07384d113edec49eaa6238ad5ff00  foo
gael at baoule:~$ gpg -sat foo
gpg: NOTE: THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT VERSION!
gpg: It is only intended for test purposes and should NOT be
gpg: used in a production environment or with production keys!

You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "Gael Queri <gqueri at mail.dotcom.fr>"
1024-bit DSA key, ID 3E18F9CE, created 1997-09-01

gael at baoule:~$ gpg foo.asc
gpg: NOTE: THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT VERSION!
gpg: It is only intended for test purposes and should NOT be
gpg: used in a production environment or with production keys!
File `foo' exists. Overwrite (y/N)? y
gpg: Signature made Fri May 26 01:38:48 2000 CEST using DSA key ID 3E18F9CE
gpg: Good signature from "Gael Queri <gqueri at mail.dotcom.fr>"
gael at baoule:~$ md5sum foo
d3b07384d113edec49eaa6238ad5ff00  foo

Regards, gael