On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, rex just had to get this off his chest:
Theo v. Werkhoven
[2003-03-22 09:31]: So the last bit ("However, PGP 6.58 fails to verify your sig.") was Rex's.
Theo, I'm getting a bad sig message from PGP:
[-- PGP output follows (current time: Sat 22 Mar 2003 12:15:03 PM PST) --] WARNING: Bad signature, doesn't match file contents!
Bad signature from user "Theo v. Werkhoven (Usenet and personal mail)
". Pretty Good Privacy(tm) Version 6.5.8 [...] [-- End of PGP output --]
It is strange, yes. Today I asked some people on IRC to check my GPG sig. One person had no problem verifiying the sig (ihe is using Mutt 1.4i and GPG 1.2.1), the other person said my sig wasn't valid according to his setup (he is using Mutt 1.3.27 and GPG 1.0.6).
I emailed you about it (your key shows as expired in PGP), but your ISP is blocking mail from dialup IP ranges:
They're not, I am.
Error 571: ACCESS DENIED by Wirehub! Internet DynaBlock a.k.a. Dynamic IP range listed by Wirehub! Internet DynaBlock (Nederlands)
The only dynamically assigned IP addresses (esp. dynamically assigned dial-up connections) our mail servers want to talk to are our own. Plain and simple. You're not accused of being a spammer, but the fact is that spammers prefer to use dial-up connections to send unwanted e-mail. If you feel victimized by this, you're a victim of the spamming industry, just like we are.
This makes about as much sense as not allowing anyone on a bus who pays cash because a few people who pay cash cause problems.
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It's quite disappointing to see that signing/encryption failures are so common after public key encryption has been in use for so long (I started using PGP in 1994 and used another public-key encryption program before that). It's bad enough when the parties can communicate openly, but it's much worse when remailers and pseudonyms are used.
I coudn't agree more. Theo -- 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.