GnuPG 0.9.10 interoperability with PGP 6.0.2i and 6.5.1

[Werner Koch]

Phil Brooke <pjb@mithlond.demon.co.uk> writes:

> Ah, no, I was using the defaults.  I thought that --force-v3-sigs was
> only needed for interoperability with PGP5.  

Well I can't track all version of PGP >= 5.  If you see PGP 5 please
translate in your mind to PGP 5 and all later versions.

> But now I am confused -- can anyone suggest why some people can get
> good verifications of the test signature, when others get bad
> verifications?

The Tab problem?  Some implementations don't know what White-Spaces
are.  The workaround code in gpg tries it's best but in some cases it
fails.  I am pretty sure that gpg now works OpenPGP correctly.

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