[Announce] [security fix] GnuPG 2.2.8 released (CVE-2018-12020)

[Juergen Bruckner]

> (Could you please trim your quotes? Incidentally, this would have
> prevented the problem in the first place, both on the first and on your
> reply).
> 
Thanks for the hint


> It would appear that at least Enigmail (mine is from Debian
> stable/stretch) ignores an inline encrypted block if it is indented, but
> interprets it if it is quoted *and* indented. So while there was no
> attempt to decrypt the block in the first message by Werner, as soon as
> it was part of a quote, starting with ">   ", Enigmail will try to
> process it. Type in the passphrase "abc" without quotes, and you'll
> decrypt the test message part of the announcement.
> 
and thanks again for the info

regards
Juergen

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Juergen M. Bruckner
juergen at bruckner.tk

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