[Enigmail] Unverified signature error

David dgboles at comcast.net
Wed Jul 15 09:22:10 PDT 2009


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Hash: SHA1

On 7/15/2009 12:14 PM, Ludwig Hügelschäfer wrote:
> David wrote on 15.07.09 17:33:
> 
>> If you mean 'with Enigmail disabled' does it look like (this is mine) a
>> signed message beginning with:
> (...)
>> No. It does not.
>>
>> It looks like an ordinary email with this as an attachment:
>>
>> signature.asc  and  Part 1.2
>>
>> These attachments are also visible with Enigmail enabled.
> 
> So this is a PGP/MIME message with the signature as attachment. When you
> look at the message source (ctrl-u), does it reveal lines looking like:
> 
> ------------------
> This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156)
> --===============1926377670==
> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512;
> 	protocol="application/pgp-signature";
> 	boundary="------------enigC100EE2EE293DC8AA2009066"
> 
> ------------------
> 
> The detail: micalg=pgp-sha512 is important. Without it, enigmail/gpg
> does not know which signing algorithm is to be used, defaults to MD5 and
> complains about the wrong format.
> 
> Ludwig

It say this:

- --===============1762445208==
Content-type: multipart/signed; boundary=nextPart4770224.AjX0mmk9Dy;
	protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1
Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit

- --nextPart4770224.AjX0mmk9Dy
Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Disposition: inline



- -- 


  David
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KGcAn15OR2bzmFSKHT+Yc/rJq4kVthY3
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