more on Thawte

[Frank Tobin]

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Billy Donahue, at 01:07 -0400 on Wed, 5 Jul 2000, wrote:

> Unable to parse that message. Error: Unknown PGP Packet type: 4

According to http://www.gnupg.org/rfc2440-5.html, packet type 4 is:
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5.4. One-Pass Signature Packets (Tag 4)

   The One-Pass Signature packet precedes the signed data and contains
   enough information to allow the receiver to begin calculating any
   hashes needed to verify the signature.  It allows the Signature
   Packet to be placed at the end of the message, so that the signer can
   compute the entire signed message in one pass.

   A One-Pass Signature does not interoperate with PGP 2.6.x or earlier.
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..and voila.  Getting a thawte signature on your key isn't super because,
personally, anyone trusting Thawte's signature is nuts.

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Frank Tobin		http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
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