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Re: Do you auto fetch GPG keys?



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On Friday, June 16 at 12:27 PM, quoth Ye Fei:
>When reading your message and also some other encrypted message,
>why it shows "PGP signature could NOT be verified.".
>Is it the normal situation?

No it is not normal. What that error message means is "this message 
claims to be signed, but the signature is incorrect". In other words, 
either the sender messed up the signature, or the message was modified 
after the signature was made. Actually, there is a third possibility: 
your pgp settings may not be set up properly to validate message 
signatures.

Here's a test: this message is signed (and the signature is valid). 
When you read this message, if you try to verify the signature, it 
should say something like:

    Good signature from "Kyle Wheeler"

and then it would list the identities I have stored in my pgp key.

~Kyle
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