Re: [Evolution] signature fails to verify

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

application/pgp is an invalid MIME-type specification, it was rejected
in favour of PGP/MIME (rfc2015 and later obsoleted by rfc3156).

Jeff

On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 13:56, Thomas Liesner wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> sorry if this has been asked before.
>
> A friend of mine is using Apples' Mail.app and MacGPG to digitally sign
> and encrypt massages.
> His key is successfuly installed in my gpg-system (v 1.0.7) and his keys
> are signed by me.
> Encryption and decryption works like charm, but his signed messages fail
> to verify. 
>
> While searching for the error i noticed, that there are differences how
> evolution and mail.app "attach" the signature to the mail.
>
> My evolution signatures look like this:
>     
>     --=-rahjJdqcvs/zOC1gduTv
>     Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc
>     Content-Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil
>     
>     -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>     Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux)
>     
>     iD8DBQA9ZRhjcLerOga182gRAumJAKC+TVLAf6/j/c8I6R4kEs1ldNfDEACfU9hh
>     NjjVMCnTNFAwlNBHg9qbOtI=
>     =1Wcg
>     -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>     
>     --=-rahjJdqcvs/zOC1gduTv--
>     
> while his signature looks like this:
>
>     --Apple-Mail-2-161134187
>     content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453;
>     name=PGP.sig
>     content-disposition: inline
>     content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
>     
>     -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>     Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (Darwin)
>     
>     iD8DBQE9ZKyGMMxCGRA1d8MRAnqyAKCIaoDfYExAi+Z2V6D7UjxNBCk5hwCfe1QY
>     pNVi7axnYp6WSpL0pbfjXqg=
>     =F0Ih
>     -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>     
>     --Apple-Mail-2-161134187--
>     
> Could this cause those errors or is somthing else wrong?
>
> clueless,
>
> //Tom
>     
>     
> -- 
> Thomas Liesner - c/o Creativ Consulting GmbH, Ratingen
> Email: t liesner creativ-consulting de
> PGP Fingerprint: 7B6B 8364 D205 0FA2 8753  AEE0 70B7 AB3A 06B5 F368
> PGP Public Key: http://www.creativ-consulting.de/keys
-- 
Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
fejj ximian com  - www.ximian.com