message was not integrity protected
David Ellement
ellement@sdd.hp.com
Mon Apr 7 14:35:02 2003
On 2002-10-14, David Shaw wrote
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 02:31:13PM +0200, Heiko Teichmeier wrote:
> > "Warning: messsage was not integrity protected".
> > How dangerous is this problem to trust the mail? What way exist to get a
> > clean message - no failure?
>
> GnuPG supports integrity protected messages which adds a hash (sort of
> a mini-signature) inside the encrypted message to alert the user if
> the message was tampered with.
>
> That warning message means that the message you received did not have
> integrity protection enabled.
I see on messages I send between my work and home machines. I'm using
GnuPG 1.2.1 at both ends. How is it that I've disabled integrity
protection?
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David Ellement