Can't decrypt PGP 8 msg

[Neil Williams]

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On Tuesday 05 Aug 2003 6:41 pm, Michael Schweppe wrote:

Now here's a thing. Why does this email not show up as signed in KMail 1.5?

The public key is OMITTED from the display window and no attempt is made to=
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verify the sig. GnuPG command line complains of:
$ gpg --verify Can\'t\ decrypt\ PGP\ 8\ msg.eml
gpg: unexpected armor:-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----\n
gpg: verify signatures failed: unexpected data

so it's not KMail's problem. In the source, it looks like any other inline=
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signed email.

All I get at the end of the text is:
Here is my public key:

Thanks,

Michael
=2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (Darwin)

iD8DBQE/L+tVp9mxG/jnt4ARAqa9AJ46hAqxTkWbWuTy2v03jYjCgHmz4ACfUI4y
kYPSaf3ttleaqlJNT6VPFwU=3D
=3Dxl9c
=2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

i.e. no public key block! Yet it is quite clearly in the source of the=20
message.

Presumably, there is some error in the text that causes GnuPG to barph and=
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then KMail gets confused. If I remove the public key block, it verifies (as=
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bad, expectedly) but I can send myself emails containing my own public key=
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block, signed inline and there are no problems.

It's not the comment line, I tried that. It might be interesting to see wha=
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happens once I've signed this reply!

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Greetings All:
>
> Back in June I asked about a pop up dialog box [that said: gpg: NOTE:
> old default options file '/Users/michaels/.gnupg/options'] that would
> appear when attempting to decrypt a friend's [he uses PGP 8.0] message.
>
> Thanks to all for the replies and explanation on what the dialog box
> message meant.
>
> However I'm still baffled why I can't decrypt my friend's message.  When
> I try I get the pop up box, click to acknowledge the box and then
> nothing; back to square one.
>
> If I sign and encrypt a message to myself, all is well, not even the pop
> up box appears.
>
> Would one of you folks be kind enough to send me an encrypted message so
> that I can help troubleshoot the problem I'm having?  I need to verify
> that all is well on my end.   At this point I'm not sure if I'm having
> the problem for not decrypting, or is the root cause with PGP 8?  I
> dunno.
>
> Here is my public key:
>
> -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
> Version: OpenKeyServer v1.2
> Comment: Extracted from belgium.keyserver.net
>
> mQGiBD708MwRBACrLFEYz2PtLuCZkuON60Nl/zjzXLGwq9kBBsLPjFg3+A/KugCp

<snip>

> 9bjKn9iSVd5EmYpFiEYEGBECAAYFAj708NcACgkQp9mxG/jnt4BXEwCcCOUCA6oW
> FoYwY0jTA1hzug3a8KsAn1YsC5ct1tPNDzkb8z5Gj/SQpRMI
> =3Dthsj
> -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (Darwin)
>
> iD8DBQE/L+tVp9mxG/jnt4ARAqa9AJ46hAqxTkWbWuTy2v03jYjCgHmz4ACfUI4y
> kYPSaf3ttleaqlJNT6VPFwU=3D
> =3Dxl9c
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
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Neil Williams
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