[Enigmail] Signature checks fails so often
Noiano
noiano at x-privat.org
Sun Nov 4 10:29:22 PST 2007
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Bob Henson wrote:
> Noiano wrote:-
>
>> Noiano wrote:
>>> Hi everybody
>>> I am using Enigmail 0.95.5 and very often the signature attached to
>>> messages are not valid. This is quite a bit annoying because I have
>>> to re send the message to the recipient.
>>> How can I solve this?
>
> Your signature is fine here.
Yeah, I can see that. But this happens hardly ever! :-(
>There are several possible reasons. If you
> use in-line signing and your correspondents are using Thunderbird, but
> not Enigmail (PGP perhaps), they will have problems as Thunderbird
> mangles incoming messages when it displays them - the answer to that is
> for them to hit CTRL-U to display the original message and then to check
> that signature - that usually works.
Not working as well.
>If you "reply" to a message and
> quote the original message, Thunderbird mangles the outbound messages by
> inserting spaces into it - there is no way round that one, regardless of
> which . The developers have stated that they won't/can't be bothered to
> fix either. The answer to both is for your correspondents to use
> GnuPG/Enigmail with Thunderbird just as you do - that works flawlessly
> (here, anyway). As Olav said, there are other clients that do similar
> things. If they are using PGP 9.x and use the "invisible proxy" method
> that should work OK - if they can a) afford to pay for it and b) get the
> rest of it to work.
>
> Another possibility is that their clients cannot handle SHA256. If you
> use PGP/MIME that may cause problems too - most e-mail clients can't
> cope with it, including Outlook Express and Outlook.
The most weird thing is that I my self fail to verify my own signature!
It's maddening me because with the previous version of enigmail I
have never had such problem
>
> Are any of those likely?
>
> Regards,
>
> Bob
>
>
>> I forgot to say I have a dsa2 key 2048b long and in my preference I
>> have set up SHA256.
>>
>> Thanks for your time
>>
>> Noiano
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