can't verify my own signature

[kurt c]

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John Clizbe wrote:
> kurt c wrote:
>> Well, John, why is it then that when I sent an encrypted and signed
>> message to this other Gmail account of mine without Enigmail, and
>> clicked on Privacy Tray's "clickboard" -> "decrypt/verify", the message
>> is both decrypted and verified as with good signature? If the message is
>> altered through the webmail system so that its signature can't be
>> verified, why is it that when it's encrypted it can both be decrypted
>> and verified?
> 
> Please address messages to the list, not a person.
> 
> Short Answer: The text manipulations performed by Web mail user agents which
> break inline signed OpenPGP messages are not possible with encrypted messages.
> 
> Trying to compare what happens to encrypted (& signed) messages versus inlined
> signed messages in transit is somewhat of an 'apples to oranges' proposition.
> 
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Thanks John, you make my learning process so much easier.

Lawrence
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