[Enigmail] test encryption features

[Olav Seyfarth]

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Hi Preeta,

> I am following the Enigmail Quickstart Guide.

Thank you. That is exactly what you should have done.

Sidenote to other list members: there will be a robot to perform this kind
of task in the future. However, it will still take some time since its author
is currently busy. But things ar on their way.

> Could someone test this email for enigmail's encryption features please?

Your message yields the following OpenPGP Security Info:

  Error - signature verification failed

OK, so it did NOT work.

  gpg: Unterschrift vom 05/05/08 23:47:58 mittels DSA-Schlüssel ID AE1D0133

Enigmail works since it found the signature. From the keyID (which is part of
the signature) it knows which public key to use to decrypt the signature. But
that key is not yet in the keyring. Since I configured GnuPG (and Enigmail) to
automatically fetch missing keys (caution, that might bloat your keyring), gpg
now tries to download and import that key:

  gpg: fordere Schlüssel AE1D0133 von hkp-Server wwwkeys.de.pgp.net an
  gpg: Schlüssel AE1D0133: Ö–ffentlicher Schlüssel "preeta <westr1000 at yahoo.com>"
       importiert
  gpg: Anzahl insgesamt bearbeiteter Schlüssel: 1
  gpg:                              importiert: 1

OK, gpg successfully downloaded and imported your public key. Using that key
gpg now decrypts the signature and compares the hash with the self-calculated
one:

  gpg: FALSCHE Unterschrift von "preeta <westr1000 at yahoo.com>"

They don't match. So the last line indicates a "INCORRECT signature". What
might have caused this? From the layout of your message I suspect line wrapping.

So I saved your message to a file, removed the line breaks within the text part
("My name ... please?") and verified using gpg CLI: now it verifies CORRECT.

=> Your Thunderbird and/or Yahoo setup seems to wrap lines where it should not.

I don't use Yahoo, so I can't tell for sure but I am sure there are preferences
(Web interface, TB AddOn) concerning whether and when to wrap. Please set all of
them to e.g. 72 chars and you should be fine. BTW, you can verify that your
settings work by sending to yourself prior to sending to the list.

This all was about signing. You also asked to test encryption. You may send
encrypted message(s) to me to test, but be sure to solve the wrap / signing
issue FIRST.

Olav
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