bad signatures

Oyvind A. Holm sunny@sunbase.org
Wed Mar 27 09:00:01 2002


On 2002-03-26 22:04-0700 Lee Roberts wrote:
> I could've sworn that I uploaded the keys to the server. Anyway, the
> keys were submitted to pgp.mit.edu. Key ID 0x54C7CC50 is revoked,
> though.
>
> On Monday 25 March 2002 22:35, Nick Andriash wrote:
> > On Monday, March 25 2002 at 20:01 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.
> >
> > 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, 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.

I got a good signature from this message when using GnuPG 1.0.6.
Fetched your key from wwwkeys.net.uk.pgp.net , works like a dream here
at least.

Mvh
=D8yvind

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