bad sig with gpg but good sig with pgp5.0i and pgp6.5.8

[Ingo Kloecker]

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On Tuesday,  5. December 2000 18:52, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Ingo Kloecker wrote:
> > "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\n\n" + unsigned_message + "\n"
> > + detached_signature
>
> Probably KMail did not generate the detached_signature in textmode,
> whcih is required.

The detached_signature was generated via 'pgps -batf', where 't' is 
textmode and 'a' ASCII armor. So it should be generated in textmode. 
But as you already said PGP 5.0i is really buggy. If a mail (or 
something else) you want to sign contains 8-bit characters PGP 5.0i 
always generates a type 0x00 signature (a signature of a binary 
document). Therefore GnuPG can't handle it correctly (and it doesn't 
have to).

> > Why do PGP 5.0i (under Linux), PGP 6.5.8 (under Linux and Windows)
> > and
>
> PGP 5.0i is really buggy - don't use it.

I don't use it. The problem is that there are other people who use it. 
I just want to check their signatures. But this seems to be not 
possible. I'll try to convince these people to switch to GnuPG (or PGP 
6).

Regards,
Ingo

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Ingo Klöcker
Lehrstuhl A für Mathematik
RWTH Aachen
52056 Aachen
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