[Enigmail] Enigmail fails to detect encrypted message

Patrick Brunschwig patrick at mozilla-enigmail.org
Thu Jan 17 23:42:56 PST 2008


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Lachezar Dobrev wrote:
>   OK. I am officially dazzled.
> 
>   While trying to send you a demonstration message I found out a couple
> of other 'bugs'.
> 
>   1. I was able to send a message that failed CRC!!!
> 
>   2. If one has selected the 'Send as Quoted-Printable' option in
> Thunderbird encrypted or signed messages break (something about
> 'quoted-printable characters in armored block found...') blaming my MTA.

Quoted-printable is not an ideal choice for using with inline-PGP, there
are many problems with it that are due to the way Enigmail obtains the
messages from Thunderbird.

>   3. The messages I have sent to demonstrate are not detected as
> encrypted/signed even from my 'Sent Mail' folder?!?!

see above

>   4. Most puzzling of all: The message that shows problems is
> successfully detected as encrypted under Linux. Is it possible, that the
> EOL sequence difference is the culprit of the problem?

no, that won't matter

>   5. When viewing the problematic message the Enigmail Console shows no
> activity. When I manually decrypt/verify the message the console shows a
> successful command execution, although I get an 'No valid armored
> OpenPGP data block found' error message in a pop-up dialog box with no
> title.
> 
>   P.S. I successfully sent a demonstration message to Patrick.

I could decrypt both successfully on Linux and Windows. As said, by all
means avoid quoted-printable for inline PGP messages.

- -Patrick


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