[NMLUG] gpg from MIME? was: SCO vs Open Source (Ken Long)

[Anthony Martinez]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 01:58:40AM -0700, Wesley J Landaker 
carved this out of pure phosphors:
Content-Description: signed data
> On Friday 23 January 2004 10:33 am, Sam Noble wrote:
> 
> > On a less un-compassionate note, I've been working with gpg for a
> > couple months or two now and mostly I think I've got my head around
> > it, so that it either behaves or I have an idea why it doesn't. But
> > for some reason Wes's sigs always show up bad in my creaky old
> > version of Evolution. Does anyone know how to pull the signed message
> 
> Speaking of which, do my sigs show up bad for anyone else? If they 
> really are bad, that would be something I'd like to fix. =) (Although, 
> they show up good for me here when I get them back from the list.)
> 

[-- PGP output follows (current time: Sat 24 Jan 2004 10:06:51 AM MST) --]
gpg: Signature made Fri 23 Jan 2004 08:14:53 AM MST using DSA key ID 4CD6E3D2
gpg: Good signature from "Wesley J. Landaker <wjl at icecavern.net>"
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg:          There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
Fingerprint: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094  0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
[-- End of PGP output --]

The warning is just cause I haven't signed your key with mine, because i've
never verified your actual fingerprint.

> > from the source of pgp/mimetype email so I can check it out with gpg
> > on the command line? the sig is well defined in the way I expect but
> > is useless without knowing where the signed message begins and ends.
> 
> Well, you could look at the main RFC 
> <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2440.txt> (there are also a few other RFCs 
> related to it) that talks about the OpenPGP message format. I skimmed 
> through it and it looks like the signed part is just the contents of 
> the other MIME part, without the headers. I haven't tried decoding it 
> manually, however.
> 
> -- 
> Wesley J. Landaker - wjl at icecavern.net
> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094  0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
> 



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