On 011204, at 21:42:48, Gerhard Siegesmund wrote
> [...] I tried to create a small script which automatically
> verifies pgp-signed mails from mutt. [...] It already works with
> inline-signatures. Simple script, simple output. For the
> mime-signed mails it doesn't work. :-(
>
> Signed mail in file testmail. Using munpack I get signature (part2) and
> text (part1)
>
> munpack -t testmail
>
> Now I thought using
>
> gpg --verify part2 part1
>
> should verify the signature. But it doesn't work.
The attached messages from Thomas Roessler explains why that method
doesn't work.
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David Ellement
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On 2000-10-03 01:45:02 +0300, Eugene Paskevich wrote:
> Can you explain what do you mean? app/pgp is Content-Type;
> but what is PGP/MIME? And is it the way decide my problem?
PGP/MIME is what mutt uses to send pgp-encrypted and -signed
messages. The idea is basically this: You take the message, then
MIME-encode it entirely. The result looks like this (for example):
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
This attachment contains umlauts: =E4=F6=FC=DF
Now, this entire MIME body part is encrypted/signed, and eventually
put into some more MIME sugar. Here, PGP only ever touches us-ascii
text (with which it deals nicely); the actual character set
conversions are left to the software which interprets the inner MIME
layers.
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Thomas Roessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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