From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/53359 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Florian Weimer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: broken: #secure method=pgp mode=signencrypt Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 17:39:04 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <87k7arlnfr.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> References: <20030709102948.GE3850@merlin.emma.line.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1057765118 5124 80.91.224.249 (9 Jul 2003 15:38:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 15:38:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M1903@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Jul 09 17:38:37 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19aH1h-0001KV-00 for ; Wed, 09 Jul 2003 17:38:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19aH2K-0004W6-00; Wed, 09 Jul 2003 10:39:16 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19aH2G-0004W1-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 09 Jul 2003 10:39:12 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 11740 invoked by alias); 9 Jul 2003 15:39:11 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 11735 invoked from network); 9 Jul 2003 15:39:11 -0000 Original-Received: from host-212-9-162-229.dial.netic.de (HELO mail.enyo.de) (212.9.162.229) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 9 Jul 2003 15:39:11 -0000 Original-Received: from [212.9.189.171] (helo=deneb.enyo.de) by mail.enyo.de with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19aH29-0005f6-AB for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2003 17:39:05 +0200 Original-Received: from fw by deneb.enyo.de with local (Exim 4.20) id 19aH28-0000KL-MW for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2003 17:39:04 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <20030709102948.GE3850@merlin.emma.line.org> (Matthias Andree's message of "Wed, 9 Jul 2003 12:29:48 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53359 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53359 Matthias Andree writes: > What I particularly take offense at is this allegation: > > Will cause Gnus to sign and encrypt in one pass, thus generating a > single signed and encrypted part. Note that combined sign and encrypt > does not work with all supported OpenPGP implementations (in > particular, PGP version 2 do not support this). > > I have just verified this with mutt and pgp-2.6.3i, and pgp on the > command line, it just works. It has always worked as long as I can > remember. (Plus, PGP-2 certainly doesn't claim OpenPGP conformance, it's > too old to.) The problem is that GnuPG cannot encrypt + sign in one pass in a way that yields a message that can be processed by PGP 2.6.x (even after patching the necessary algorithms into PGP or GnuPG). This problem does not arise if you sign and encrypt separately.