Keyservers

Jonathan Ely thajsta at gmail.com
Sun Mar 20 19:11:58 CET 2011


The attached .asc file causes problems? I have disabled that but still
enabled the header. Why would the .asc attachment option be there if it
causes problems?

On 20/03/2011 01:28 PM, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Sunday 20 March 2011, Charly Avital wrote:
>> Ingo Klöcker wrote the following on 3/20/11 11:43 AM:
>>> I doubt this very much because the encoding surely happens before
>>> the signing.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Ingo
>>
>> In my post, I also indicated that there was a string --=20 between
>> the actual text and the signature disclaimer ""CONFIDENTIALITY
>> NOTICE: This e-mail...."
> 
> Well, that's the "standard" signature separator: 2 dashes followed by a 
> space. To preserve this trailing space Thunderbird/enigmail does the 
> right thing and encodes it.
> 
> 
>> After Jonathan disabled that signature add-on, his signed messages
>> verified.
> 
> Yeah, well. Even though Jonathan disabled the signature his message is 
> still quoted-printable encoded. As are my messages. So, quoted-printable 
> encoding does not seem to be the problem.
> 
> Also, Jonathan's message "Re: what are the sub keys" does not have a 
> signature. Still the signature is broken. What the two messages with 
> broken signatures seem to have in common is the attached key. Maybe 
> that's what is causing the problems.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Ingo
> 
> 
> 
> 
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