Hi, Some keys stored on the public key servers have User IDs which seem to be encoded with a different encoding than UTF-8.
For example the key with key ID 0xA8364AC589C44886 shows an invalid character when viewed online: http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?search=0xA8364AC589C44886 gpg is able to validate the User ID $ gpg --check-sigs 0xA8364AC589C44886 pub 1024D/89C44886 1999-09-30 uid Lasse M\xberkedahl Larsen <l...@gr3.dk> sig! 89C44886 1999-09-30 Lasse M\xberkedahl Larsen <l...@gr3.dk> sub 2048g/0CA36EF9 1999-09-30 sig! 89C44886 1999-09-30 Lasse M\xberkedahl Larsen <l...@gr3.dk> My own Java based tool however fails to validate this User ID, i.e., the calculated hash always returns a different value. Also PGP desktop reports that the signature is incorrect. Any idea why this User ID validates correctly with gpg but not with other tools? Does gpg handle non-UTF-8 encoded User IDs differently? Kind regards, Martijn Brinkers _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
