bad signatures

[Brian M. Carlson]

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On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 09:14:13AM +0100, Marc Mutz wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 March 2002 06:35, Nick Andriash wrote:
> > On Monday, March 25 2002 at 08:01 PM PDT, you wrote:
> > > Why does everyone say my GPG signature is bad while their PGP signatu=
re
> > > shows good? I did a decrypt/verify of one of my GPG messages with PGP
> > > and it gives a bad signature also. So far, I don't see anything wrong
> > > with my GPG configuration.
>=20
> Upload your key to a keyserver (e.g. pgp.dtype.org), so we can check what=
's=20
> going on.

x-hkp://gnv.us.ks.cryptnet.net:11371 is good. cryptnet servers won't mangle
your key.

>=20
> > Poor wrapping by the Mail Client, i.e. wrapping of text after the messa=
ge
> > has been signed is one of the most probable causes,
>=20
> No. KMail doesn't do that ;-)
>=20
> > unless you use a
> > WYSIWYG Editor. Also, I see this in your headers:
> >
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> >
> > I'm not sure if I'm using the correct vernacular, but some Servers will=
 be
> > cause for concern if they convert the text to 7 bit. I could not check
> > your signature because I could not find your Key on any of the Servers.
>=20
> If the server converts 8but labelled content to 7bit, he will only do so =
if=20
> the content is 7bit text only. Since 8bit and 7bit are both incarnations =
of=20
> the identiy transformation, the conversion would not invalidate the sig.

If you do not want this converted, use "Content-Conversion: prohibited".
Servers are prohibited from converting if you state this.


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Brian M. Carlson
<karlsson@hal-pc.org>
OpenPGP: 0x351336B2DCA1913A

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Version: GnuPG v1.0.6d (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Ubi libertas, ibi patria.

iQEVAwUBPKECleWR/8lWBVPnAQNC2Af/YX0Y5mDik176HpIoSRmzDkoaZy16gGHR
0fgUCEsxtZyUVYQAhrX75yLR8Tfe6kIIMcCNyXdWpTr99ojLAuvxPv73SDz0OTSc
5sMm714QbIbCBo7wcrVJSi74+QrssMPxmK2LANsNBspjOtnJVvFzFA/uFzg/BYVO
3VI4YrhTFFsdYgAqtRu49JkmP+gguz0ihZXYA5a1BheMDx8rr/kmzJ9RODYpOWRw
qmp+mFOr2Wmca57LmvxFuJ0jVP2RZkduIO8/K8/Fvi9TAAtm66cfBtFnn/LSZ8TG
FTP0fUubhahagH6xHSVMhqeq+S8yxXcs+PEWdTv2JlhNV4I/1sORrg==
=Msgr
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