[Enigmail] Enigmail fails to detect encrypted message

Patrick Brunschwig patrick at mozilla-enigmail.org
Thu Jan 10 02:31:15 PST 2008


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Lachezar Dobrev wrote:
>   Please see response inline
> 
> 2008/1/10, Patrick Brunschwig <patrick at mozilla-enigmail.org
> <mailto:patrick at mozilla-enigmail.org>>:
> 
>> That's the same as clicking on the "OpenPGP" button in the toolbar.
> 
>   Funny... I have no such button on neither the Thunderbird Toolbar, nor
> the Message View Window.

Sorry, the button is labelled "Decrypt".

>   P.S. I am sending a couple of messages that failed to decrypt
> automatically off-the-list. I apologize, but 'I like my privacy' :).

I have analyzed the messages you sent me. The message sources look like
this:

[more headers]
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

<div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">-----BEGIN
PGP MESSAGE-----
Charset: windows-1251
Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

hQIOAxxQ0nrmqQMHEAf8DvuJn6cD5mr2wLTgZ8TkjeTLk2ieNqfw1iMSPig/bkXf
...

The problem is the <div ...> before "-----BEGIN" -- that won't work.

I'm not sure from where this <div> comes (I believe that the senders
write their messages with the HTML editor), but for sure if blocks
Enigmail (and GnuPG) from decrypting the message.

The messages can't be decrypted because according to the OpenPGP
standard, the "-----BEGIN PGP ..." line must be on a single line on it's
own, i.e. you can't put any text on the same line.

- -Patrick
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