bad sig with gpg but good sig with pgp5.0i and pgp6.5.8

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Ingo Kloecker wrote:

> The same command line without '--textmode' gives the same output.

--textmode does only work on the encoding side.

> "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\n\n" + unsigned_message + "\n" + 
> detached_signature

Probably KMail did not generate the detached_signature in textmode,
whcih is required.

> Why do PGP 5.0i (under Linux), PGP 6.5.8 (under Linux and Windows) and

PGP 5.0i is really buggy - don't use it.

> There seems to be some weird discrepancy between the Windows and the
> Linux version of GnuPG.

The only difference is the way lineendings are handled:  CR,LF for
Windows, LF for Unix.  However if a signature is created in
textmode, this does not matter.

Trailing whitespaces may be another problem.  See the ML archive for
details.  

  Werner

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