bad PGP sig (was: When is a sig not a sig?)
Hello René and owner!
On Friday, September 24, 2004 at 5:47:11 PM +0200, René Clerc wrote:
>> gpg: BAD signature from "Rene Clerc"
> I have no idea why my signature has turned out to be BAD..
Same cause as for David DTG recently: Dots at the beginning of a
line, normally QP-encoded by Mutt (=2E), were harmfully decoded in
transport. Verification fails.
Take your own BAD mail from list, and DTG's 2 BAD, edit
"s/^\./=2E/", and the 3 verify GOOD.
Dave (thanks!) resent me test mails with dots, directly off list:
GOOD sig. List mails from before agent57.gbnet.net crash give GOOD sig.
> perhaps this is a list software problem?
Probably yes, or something around. MTA, MDA, filter, or something,
on colonelk.gbnet.net. CC to owner?
BTW the s/^=2E/./ is not the only change in transport: It seems also
an empty line disappears between header and first MIME separator.
Harmless from PGP point of view.
Last time I saw something like that (hi Thorsten!), very very *very*
near, culprit was a Perl MDA built around Mail::Audit.
Bye! Alain.
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