[X-Unix] PGP funkiness...

[Pedro fp]

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On 08/10/2004, at 2:37 PM, Eric Crist wrote:

> I guess I didn't elaborate very well.  I've been using MacGPG for 
> quite a while (since I bought this laptop), and it's not quite meeting 
> my needs.  There are many emails that it's not able to verify, exiting 
> out on an error of 'No Data.'  Also, it's unable to verify multiple 
> PGP signatures within the same text, which would be handy.  There are 
> other lists on which I reside, such as FreeBSD Questions, where I do 
> my best to verify PGP signatures.  Also, I use PGP to encrypt/decrypt 
> email on a regular basis between colleagues of mine.

MacGPG <http://macgpg.sourceforge.net/> does all of that well & is 
plays well with PGP. The biggest difference is that you use a few small 
apps for different aspects of it, including a plug-in for using with 
Mail.app, rather than one app for all as PGP does ... oh, & it's free 
:) All the apps are downloadable from the MacGPG page or have their 
download pages linked there.

On 09/10/2004, at 5:09 AM, Eugene wrote:

> : The really annoying thing is that every one of your emails comes with
> : an attachment PGP.sig. This is unique behavior as to your email.
> : Please fix it.
>
> Ummm, that's how PGP works.  Every message sent out includes a copy of
> the sender's public key.  That's how public-key cryptography works.

Ummm ... no ... the ,sig file is a signature as an attached file *not* 
a public key. And PGP doesn't include a copy of the public key with 
every message. MacGPG doesn't sign in an attachment but rather by 
appending the signature text to the message as in this message.

Cheers, Pedro :-)

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