Slightly OT: PGP/MIME verification fails with new KMail2 and Thunderbird 13.0

Branko Majic branko at majic.rs
Tue Jul 10 08:43:55 CEST 2012


As a curiosity, could you have both clients save the message in raw
format somewhere on the disks, and compare if they're the same with a
checksum?

Maybe there's some misbehavior with the line endings in terms of *nix
vs Winblow$ (so checking with cat -v would also be a good idea)? I know
that at some point I managed to corrupt an Apache configuration file
by copy/pasting stuff from KMail into terminal (but that was very long
time ago), there were some "invibisble" characters pasted in the
process.

On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:53:43 +0200
Hauke Laging <mailinglisten at hauke-laging.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I was just pointed at the problem that for the last months all of my 
> signatures are supposed to be bad. I use KMail which shows both the
> emails I have sent and those I receive via this list as correctly
> signed. I just used Thunderbird (13.0) to check and TB claims even
> (most but not all) of the emails in my IMAP sent folder to have bad
> signatures. TB doesn't even recognize the received emails as signed
> (just shows an "attachment").
> 
> The problem seems to be newline-related. I do not waste time by
> filing a bug report for the wrong software... Thus maybe one of the
> MIME experts here can tell me who's wrong. The KMail behaviour seems
> to have changed from KMail to KMail2. KMail2 successfully verifies
> the TB emails.
> 
> Thunderbird puts one more empty line between the body and the MIME
> seperator:
> 
> #######################################
> PGP: D44C 6A5B 71B0 427C CED3 025C BD7D 6D27 ECCB 5814
> 
> --nextPart1869494.a4NpQxFzAE
> Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc"
> #######################################
> 
> #######################################
> PGP: D44C 6A5B 71B0 427C CED3 025C BD7D 6D27 ECCB 5814
> 
> 
> --------------enigDCF37498B4DFB4B1B81B232B
> Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc"
> #######################################
> 
> I can manually successfully verify emails from both clients. So
> obviously one of them feeds the wrong data into gpg (during signing
> or verification).
> 
> 
> Hauke



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Branko Majic
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