1.0.3 fails to verify RSA signature, 1.0.2 is OK

[Werner Koch]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Keith Owens wrote:

> gpg 1.0.2 with rsaref module accepts the signature.  PGP version
> unix50i1b accepts the signature.  pgp-2.6.3i does not.  gnupg 1.0.3

I still wonder why gpg-1.0.2 with rsa.c does not accept the sig.

The strange thing I noticed about this signature is:

:signature packet: algo 1, keyid 0ECD082462885875
	version 3, created 962515123, md5len 5, sigclass 01
                                                         ^^
that it uses textmode which is somewhat strange for a detached
signatures.  textmode does not has the data asis but translates LF
to CR,LF and strips white spaces - there is no reason to use it for
binary files.  There are a couple of workarounds in GnuPG to cope
with all the different behaviour of the different PGP flavours
regarding the textmode.

Ciao,

  Werner


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