Newsgroup signing error

Stewart V. Wright swright at physics.adelaide.edu.au
Wed Feb 16 22:18:24 CET 2005


G'day Paul,  (Sending this back to the GnuPG-users list)


* Paul Squires <paul at pasquires.demon.co.uk> [050216 15:08]:
> Stewart V. Wright wrote:
> > G'day possible Person Impersonating Jason,  ;-)
> > 
> > * Jason Barnett <jason.barnett at telesuite.com> [050216 13:41]:
> > 
> >><sigh>I suppose it would be a better test if I had actually signed my
> >>message</sigh>
> > 
> > 
> > Your signature failed.
> 
> Which is odd since as far as /my/ mailer is concerned, it didn't (also
> using TB/enigmail).

Ah, well, there's your problem then.  See the other post about broken
mailers...

> Guess an MTA must be amending the message somewhere along the line...

Nope, just a flakey implementation of RFC-3156.  This would make sense
as your clear-signed message worked for me.  (I gather RFC-3156 is
PGP/MIME related from reading David's previous email.)


Cheers,

S.


P.S.  It's sooooo easy to be patronising when one uses mutt!  ;-)

P.P.S  I'm intrigued.  Does your mailer verify my signature   
       as the previous line ended with a couple of spaces.
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