Digital archeology -- verifying a signed Usenet message from 1995
Lars Noodén
lars.nooden at gmx.com
Tue May 19 20:16:18 CEST 2026
On 5/19/26 21:16, Werner Koch wrote:
> Add this option: --allow-weak-digest-algos
Thanks! And thanks again to everyone who read and/or answered earlier.
The final result is:
$ gpg1 --allow-weak-digest-algos --verify message.usenet
gpg: Signature made Wed 12 Jul 1995 05:50:42 PM EEST using RSA key ID
961F4A35
gpg: WARNING: digest algorithm MD5 is deprecated
gpg: please see https://gnupg.org/faq/weak-digest-algos.html for more
information
gpg: Good signature from "Tatu Ylonen <ylo at cs.hut.fi>"
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the
owner.
Primary key fingerprint: B7 45 AF 9F F0 1A A1 F5 D3 38 B0 F8 36 D1 3F 17
Very cool.
/Lars
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