Bad signature? (was Re: Length of public key?)

Anthony E. Greene agreene@pobox.com
Wed Jul 10 12:06:01 2002


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On 10-Jul-2002/09:11 +0100, Daniel Rees <dan@dwrees.co.uk> wrote:
>
>Thanks for the information - however something I have noticed is that if
>I check your signature (and a couple of others on this list), it is
>reported as "BAD". I am using Evolution 1.0.5 with gpg 1.0.6, and the
>public key is imported into my keyring successfully. I have also noticed
>that this is not the case with everybody - might this be a problem with
>the mailing list appending itself to signed messages, or something else?

It's a problem in the way Evolution handles in-line PGP messages. Paste
the message into a file and run gpg on it. The sig will verify correctly.
Evolution is designed to handle PGP/MIME, not in-line PGP.


Tony
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