On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 06:43:17PM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> > Derek Martin wrote:
> > > And stranger still is that the copy of the message that I receive from
> > > the mailing list ALWAYS VERIFIES CORRECTLY on my end.
> > 
> > Perhaps there is some option or version difference with gpg.  Maybe
> > something in your settings is automatically trimming trailing whitespace
> > when verifying signatures.  Are you using gpgv1 or v2?  What is your
> > pgp_verify_command set to?
> 
> Replying to myself again.  You appear to be using gpg v1.4.5.  Version
> 1.4.8 introduced many changes to default functionality (with the release
> of RFC-4880).  I think that is the reason some people are verifying your
> signatures and others are not.

That seems like a pretty big change for a patch-level version bump...
I wouldn't have guessed there could be such a problem.

> If I add the flag '--rfc2440' gpg reverts to the old behaviour and
> successfully validates the signatures to your emails with trailing
> whitespaces.

Yeah that must be it.  Thanks much!

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Derek D. Martin    http://www.pizzashack.org/   GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02
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