Signature messing with compression?

[Dave Harvill]

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checked `man gpg`....  perhaps --detach-sign (or -b) will do the job for
you

- -dave


On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, J Horacio MG wrote:

> I've been having problems with the following:
> 
> I've several times attempted to send a mail with an attached compressed
> (gzip'd) file, and then sign the message.
> 
> Since I'm using Mutt, it's a PGP/MIME type of signature.  The receiver
> of the message hasn't been able to properly uncompress the .gz file on
> arrival, getting some sort of errors.  I finally resorted to not signing
> the message, which worked fine.
> 
> At first glance, I can only assume that the signing process could be
> messing up with the contents of the mail somehow.  I haven't tried
> encrypting instead of signing.
> 
> Can anyone confirm this point?
> 
> TIA
> -- 
> Horacio
> homega@vlc.servicom.es
> Valencia - ESPAŅA
> 
> 
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