On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, rex just had to get this off his chest:
Mitch Thompson
[2003-03-21 08:38]: On Friday 21 March 2003 02:39, John Pettigrew wrote:
Perhaps you could sign messages using PGP/MIME for those who support it - it would then not annoy people reading the text part because it would be in a separate part?
I will look into it, especially if it will promote peace and harmony here.
FWIW, my Mutt setup doesn't show your sig (which is normal). The message looks like:
========================================================================== [-- BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE --]
On Friday 21 March 2003 02:39, John Pettigrew wrote:
Here it looks like:
Message-Id: <200303210828.02136.mitchthompson@satx.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [SLE] pgp/gpg signatures & security (was 8.2 Announced)
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by maildrop5.xs4all.nl id h2LEcD2n081783
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.5 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE version=2.20
X-Spam-Level:
Content-Type: application/pgp; format=text; x-action=sign
[-- PGP output follows (current time: Sat 22 Mar 2003 01:06:33 AM CET) --]
gpg: Signature made Fri Mar 21 15:28:01 2003 CET using ELG key ID B0AF66AE
gpg: Good signature from "James M. THompson
However, PGP 6.58 fails to verify your sig.
gpg-1.2.1-1 has no problem
Anyone been able to get a good sig report on Mitch's sigs? (yes, Mitch's public key is on my keyring).
As you see.
I second John's suggestion to sign messages using PGP/MIME. Sigs that don't verify are not of much use.
Using MIME is definitly better than the "old" way of dumping all of it in the body as text. -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 27N , 4 29 45E. SuSE 8.0 x86 Kernel k_Athlon 2.4.19-4GB See headers for PGP/GPG info.