gpgme: is there a way to identify a signature as clear text or detached?

[Werner Koch]

On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 19:40, lunar at debian.org said:

> Is there an easy way to give GPGME the file and know if it is a
> clear text signature or a detached signature?

No.  You may simply try to verify and only in the case of an error
assume a detached signature and ask for the data file.

The new gpgme_data_identify does not distinguish between a detached and
a cleartext signature either.

> Another related question: in my tests, using the following always
> failed:
>
>     err = gpgme_op_verify(ctx, sig, NULL, NULL);
>
> It seems that the `plain` 4th argument is mandatory when verifying
> cleartext signature. I don't understand the rationale for that. In

You usually need this to present the signed text.  Without passing it
through gpg you would need to do the un-escaping yourself.  Feel free to
add a feature request in the bug tracker.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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