Show that an encrypted message was signed, without decrypting it

Teemu Likonen tlikonen at iki.fi
Sun Oct 11 11:02:00 CEST 2020


* 2020-10-11 02:40:28+02, Stefan Claas wrote:

> I was reading old GnuPG threads were people were asking if it's
> possible to extract a signature from an encrypted message.

It seems that there is a visible signature packet in encrypted and
signed messages. See the output of this command:

    echo message | gpg --encrypt --sign --default-recipient-self | \
        gpg --list-packets

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