On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 17:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> It is well known to people who have followed PGP & GPG for years, some
> who didn't watch as well will see that this 'flaw' has been patched on
> multiple occasions so it is nothing to worry about.
It is not a flaw but a requirement of the stan
Stan Rydzewski wrote:
>> Not that I take much glee in knowing there are things I can read on
>> linux that Windows users can't, but I thought that the man pages were
>> generally included with the windows builds and you could open them
>> with a text editor.
>
> Yes. They don't format as nicely,
Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Please, if you want to continue to beat this drum, please beat it in
> front of the right people.
>
>> Fixing the RFC is probably not an option, but being more clear in user
>> documentation is. Not just the official GnuPG manual, but
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 09:57:25AM -0600, Matt wrote:
> I buy a drill, I know a hand crank or motor turns the bit, and the bit
> makes holes. I buy a refrigerator, its job is to keep food cool, I have
> now idea how it turns electricity into cooling - and it is not addressed
> in the manual, as lo
Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Matt wrote:
>
>> There are man pages, which can't be read under windows
>
> Not that I take much glee in knowing there are things I can read on
> linux that Windows users can't, but I thought that the man pages were
> generally included with the windows builds and you coul
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Remco Post wrote:
> Now, this is true for you and me. Now, take my secretary as an example.
> She has not installed any pgp/gpg aware software, nor is she an
> experienced user of cryptographic tools. Do you expect her to correctly
> interpret these
Robert J. Hansen wrote:
>> Does it say that the comment lines I read
>> in the (clearsigned) message before running it through GPG are not
>> part
>> of the signed message, that any third party between the sender and me
>> could have altered them?
>
> I would think the line "- BEGIN PGP SIGNAT
> Not that I take much glee in knowing there are things I can read on
> linux that Windows users can't, but I thought that the man pages were
> generally included with the windows builds and you could open them
> with a text editor.
Yes. They don't format as nicely, but you can read them. In any
Matt wrote:
> Now I haven't read the OpenPGP RFC, but if it is anything like the other
> RFCs that I've looked at (but been unable to read) its language is the
> worst possible combination between a lawyer and an engineer. Designed to
> kill all interest in the subject before getting down to the su
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> Does it say that the comment lines I read
> in the (clearsigned) message before running it through GPG are not
> part
> of the signed message, that any third party between the sender and me
> could have altered them?
I would think the line "
Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> This is a nonissue. I can't think of a stronger way to put it. The
> mutability of the comment and version string is well known and
> clearly documented in the RFC.
It is well known to people who have followed PGP & GPG for years, some
who didn't watch as well will see
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