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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KMaili pgp sign problem - HELP
From:       Sven Radej <sven () lisa ! exp ! univie ! ac ! at>
Date:       1999-07-24 11:33:46
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On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Daniel Naber wrote:
>On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Sven Radej wrote:
>
>> >I hope this wasnīt introduced with my patch that appends the sig with
>> >"-- " instead of "--" (note the space). End of line space might
>> >be changed by some of the involved transport programs...
>
>> I don't see how can this make any harm. But on the other hand I
>> don't know what could possibly cause this bug.
>
>What does happen if you try to check the PGP-signature with PGP
>itself, i.e. save the mail and run PGP on it (donīt know how, with
>2.6.3 thereīs a command line option)? Is the PGP-signature
>invalid, too?
I once got it to work after adding removing newlines, I think.
>
>BTW, the "--" somehow gets escaped by PGP, AFAIK.
My god, looks you're right. If I type:

"test"
"-- "
"Sven Radej"

I get bad signature, but

"test"
"--"
"Sven Radej"

results in good signature. 

I'll try to investigate it further. Btw why did you change "--" to "-- "? What
other difference does it make?
--
Sven Radej      radej@kde.org
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