Importing In-Line Signatures

Mon Dec 9 09:49:01 2002

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On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 06:24, Dave Barton wrote:
> I have scanned the how-to docs, man pages and faq's but (unless I have
> missed something obvious) I can't find any definite information about
> creating an .asc file to import an in-line signature.
>=20
> My MUA (Evolution) does not handle in-line signatures automatically and
> my understanding (limited) is that I must create an .asc file to import
> it into my keyring. What is not clear to me is which parts of the
> in-line signature I need to put into the .asc file. I have experimented
> with several alternatives:
>=20
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----		<- Inc and Excl Begin & End
> Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux)	    <- Inc and Excl Version
> Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org   <- Inc and Excl comment
>=20
> someone's key id here		 	     <- Just the key id
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Hi!

With the hope of not offending you, it seems to me you should do some
reading about how gpg works.

You import *keys* into the gpg keyring. You don't import signatures. You
just verify them.

Starting with 1.2, evolution has (thank god) removed their always broken
support for inline signatures, so you see those mails in full, including
signatures. What you do, when you see a=20

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

signed text like this

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux)

iHMEARECADMFAj30WQEsGmh0dHA6Ly9mb3J0eXR3by5jaC9sZWdhbC9ncGcvZW1h
aWwuMjAwMjA4MjIACgkQi6Qxi+Wn99YHHQCg0NpsevXl/2VAX1aVHApXgyusppQA
nj5uEDbPcy6glIwJ93JdKjXImArZ
=3DAWqV
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

is: open a terminal, run gpg, and paste the whole mail into it (or save
the whole mail into a file and do "gpg < themail"):

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avbidder@altfrangg:~$ gpg < mail=20

signed text like this

gpg: Signature made Mon Dec  9 09:49:05 2002 CET using DSA key ID E5A7F7D6
gpg: Good signature from "Adrian von Bidder <avbidder@fortytwo.ch>"
gpg:                 aka "[jpeg image of size 1956]"
gpg: Policy: http://fortytwo.ch/legal/gpg/email.20020822
avbidder@altfrangg:~$=20
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Hope this helps
-- vbi

--=20
this email is protected by a digital signature:  http://fortytwo.ch/gpg

NOTE: keyserver bugs! get my key here: https://fortytwo.ch/gpg/92082481

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Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc
Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux)

iHMEABECADMFAj30WVosGmh0dHA6Ly9mb3J0eXR3by5jaC9sZWdhbC9ncGcvZW1h
aWwuMjAwMjA4MjIACgkQi6Qxi+Wn99YJ1QCdFdv0SRcTLGfHhYyORKvJOpxZ4t8A
n0rwu4SqsfGOzaL2BK9JK8CtOVOf
=2Oi7
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Signature policy: http://fortytwo.ch/legal/gpg/email.20020822

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