From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/22405 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Carey Evans Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Once again: PGnus & PGP Date: 12 Apr 1999 19:18:38 +1200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <871zhq5msx.fsf@psyche.evansnet> References: <19990407183048.A29643@diabolo.ndh.net> <99Apr8.153506edt.13862-3@gateway.intersys.com> <19990411101448.A523@psyche.clear.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035160331 29155 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:32:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:32:11 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA09928 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 03:21:28 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAB26388; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 02:20:40 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 12 Apr 1999 02:21:00 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA16546 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 02:20:52 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from psyche.evansnet (mail@d112.kelly.paradise.net.nz [203.96.156.112]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA09922 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 03:20:42 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from carey by psyche.evansnet with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 10WazR-00030m-00; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 19:18:41 +1200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Jack Twilley's message of "Mon, 12 Apr 1999 02:28:17 GMT" Original-Lines: 39 User-Agent: Gnus/5.07008 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.80) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:22405 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:22405 Jack Twilley writes: > >>>>> "Carey" == Carey Evans writes: > > Jack> Now what about this PGP/MIME crap? Is this the message with > Jack> detached signature thing? > > Carey> Yes. It seems to be generated by mutt, and maybe be TM. > Carey> Hopefully I've managed to sign this message using it. > > While you may have signed it, no amount of abuse of your message > caused PGP to successfully verify your signature. Have you ever > successfully verified a signature of a PGP/MIME message? Mutt successfully verifies my message, as well as others on the debian-devel mailing list, where PGP/MIME is used by a few people. To verify the signature manually: Save the PGP signature in the application/pgp-signature part, as "msg.txt.sig" for example. Save the headers and content of the text/plain part, leaving it in its MIME encoding, e.g. as "msg.txt". Run PGP against the signature, e.g. as "pgp msg.txt.sig". The process is described in RFC 2015. By "leaving it in its MIME encoding, I mean that the first line in the file is the "Content-Type" header, and my .sig separator "-- " is still QP-encoded as "--=20". I'm not claiming that PGP/MIME is actually any good, but this is how I can get a good signature from my message. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ "Try explaining a syn-ack-fin-rst scan to a dialup provider abuse drone. You can almost hear the belt slip off the brain drive shaft." - Strange in asr