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