[PLUG] test
AthlonRob
AthlonRob at axpr.net
Mon Nov 3 10:52:02 UTC 2003
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 10:17, Russ Johnson wrote:
> * Russ Johnson <russj at dimstar.net> [2003-11-02 18:21]:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > Should be pgp-signed.
> >
> > Now... where to upload my key...
>
> OK, now is this one signed properly?
>
> I think I have it working in both kmail and mutt.
Yes.
It's worth mentioning, I think, that the two emails were signed very
differently. The one you quote was signed plainly. The signature
itself was part of the text of the message. The one I quote was signed
using PGP/MIME, so the signature is a separate MIME part.
There are, unfortunately, many broken MIME-capable mail clients that
simply are unable to decipher PGP/MIME. When a PGP/MIME message comes
through, they see a blank message with two attachments; one the body of
the message itself, and the other the PGP signature of the message.
OE is likely the most popular of those broken mail clients.
However, Evolution takes a different stance, quite opposite from
Microsoft's OE in this respect. PGP/MIME messages are *very* easily
verifiable. I only have to click on a lock at the bottom of the message
to receive the signature information. If the message is signed
plaintext, however, I have to save the message and verify the saved
message. Copying and pasting seems to take out the linebreaks.
IIRC, KMail is smarter than Evolution here. KMail, I believe, is able
to easily (and automagically) verify the integrity of an email no matter
how it is signed. I guess KMail signs in plaintext, too, as I know mutt
signs using PGP/MIME because some folks who use mutt as a news client
tried to sign their usenet posts but were unable to get it to work
plaintext without just using a pipe to gpg.
I stopped signing messages to PLUG several months ago simply because the
only way Evolution (my favorite mail client currently) is able to sign
posts automatically is using PGP/MIME, and there *are* folks on this
list who use OE and the like who can't easily read PGP/MIME signed
messages.
I see in the last few months, though, that PGP/MIME on the list seems to
be more popular than it was a year ago, so I may just end up signing
posts again...
Rob
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