Signature messing with compression?

Dave Harvill dlh@zns.acu.cs.umb.edu
Fri, 9 Jul 1999 14:13:33 -0400 (EDT)


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checked `man gpg`....  perhaps --detach-sign (or -b) will do the job for
you

- -dave


On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, J Horacio MG wrote:


> I've been having problems with the following:
>
> I've several times attempted to send a mail with an attached compressed
> (gzip'd) file, and then sign the message.
>
> Since I'm using Mutt, it's a PGP/MIME type of signature. The receiver
> of the message hasn't been able to properly uncompress the .gz file on
> arrival, getting some sort of errors. I finally resorted to not signing
> the message, which worked fine.
>
> At first glance, I can only assume that the signing process could be
> messing up with the contents of the mail somehow. I haven't tried
> encrypting instead of signing.
>
> Can anyone confirm this point?
>
> TIA
> --
> Horacio
> homega@vlc.servicom.es
> Valencia - ESPAŅA
>
>
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