OpenPGP vs inline PGP

Robin Lynn Frank rlfrank@paradigm-omega.com
Fri Jul 11 01:43:02 2003


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On Thursday 10 July 2003 16:15, David Ellement wrote:
> On 2003-07-10, Robin Lynn Frank wrote
>
> > To me, it works or it doesn't.
>
> On 2003-07-10, Robin Lynn Frank wrote
>
> > The only reason I even attempted this was to have a way to verify
> > these @#$%&!& detached signatures.
>
> Just curious: what do you do about inline signatures?  They aren't
> guaranteed to verify, which seems like it doesn't fit with the need for
> something that "either works or it doesn't".

Have no problem at all verifying them.  Kmail's built-in facility for=20
verifying inline pgp sigs has worked flawlessly.  I've even tested it with=
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messages I've deliberately tampered with.  The plugin actually will do=20
verification of detached sigs.  Its just the fact that using gpg-agent scre=
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everything else up for us as we can't even get our passphrases to work.
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