On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:48:13AM -0500, David T-G spewed into the ether:
[snip]
> From my [completely amateur] review of the file and comparison with my
> own tests, it looks as though your correspondent encrypted a file, pasted
> the encrypted text into a message, and then in-line signed that message
> which wrapped the signature around the encryption.
> 
> mutt, AFAIK, isn't expecting two-step handling like that but, instead, a
> message that is both signed and encrypted in the same step.  I think that
> that is where the problem lies.
> 
> Take a look at my tests and see if any of them give you the same problem
> as your pal (I'm going to keep my bet on which it will be silent until
> the results come out, of course :-)  Meanwhile, check with him or her and
> see how the encryption and signing are done; if some of it involves
> clipboard pasting, then that's probably the trouble.
> 
> 
> % 
> % TIA
> 
> HTH & HAND
> 
> 
David,

I was able to decrypt & read all of the emails you sent except for
the signed+pasted-encrypted in-line message. With particular email I 
received the same results as with their emails.

From what you said about the two-step process and based on the software
they are using, eudora (win2K)/pgpfreeware 7.0.3 plugin that since
pgpfreeware is a plugin and not an integral part of eudora that this
is how the plugin handles the encryption and signing of messages with
eudora. 

That would explain why when I send them signed+encrypted email they can
only open it what they call a secure viewer which is a seperate window
from eudora. The pgpfreeware plugin is expecting a two-step process and my 
emails are signed+encrypted in one-step. Therefore they can't read my
emails directly within eudora.

So which method is the standard signing and encrypting in one-step or
two-steps?

Thanks for your help,

jbw

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