WARNING: message was not integrity protected
   
    Werner Koch
     
    wk@gnupg.org
       
    Thu Oct  3 16:39:01 2002
    
    
  
On Wed, 02 Oct 2002 20:47:22 +0200, Florian Weimer said:
> This warning is generated if a encrypted + signed message is
> decrypted.  The MDC is probably omitted because the signature is more
> than sufficient, so nothing bad is going on, but the message is a bit
Many folks would ignore a BAD signature and assume that it is due to a
faulty MUA on the sender's side.  
Another reason for issuing this warning is to get people to use the
MDC feature.  If you don't like it: --no-mdc-warning
Shalom-Salam,
   Werner