verifying signature after decryption

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Mon Apr 26 19:29:25 CEST 2004


On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 12:57:22PM -0400, Atom 'Smasher' wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, David Shaw wrote:
> > > question: is there a way to extract the signed message, including the
> > > signature, from an encrypted message?
> >
> > There is nothing in the OpenPGP protocol that prevents this.  In fact,
> > it's quite easy to do.  However, the code in GnuPG doesn't currently
> > allow it (it's not a generally useful feature).
> ====================================
> 
> is there any way to do this without writing my own code?

Nothing I can think of offhand, sorry.

David



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