Re: [Evolution] signature fails to verify

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

yeah, the 1.0.x code is a bit flakey, and not guaranteed to work.

On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 04:17, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> Sorry, I misread that last message - I was seeing things.
>
> it was application/pgp-signature not application/pgp...
>
> anyways, you didn't give me anywhere close to enough info to tell what
> the problem is, but since it looks like it is pgp/mime then my guess is
> that you are seeing a bug in Evolution's pgp signature checking. 
>
> Already fixed in CVS as of months ago.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 14:30, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
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> Jeffrey Stedfast
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