[SGVLUG] John - did you change GPG keys?

John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com
Thu Apr 30 16:51:42 PDT 2009


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In a posting purportedly from "Emerson, Tom (*IC)"
<Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> but lacking a digital signature, it is
written:

> I know it's possible that either the plug-in I'm using isn't working
> [gpgol & kleopatra], or that the "corporate" e-mail servers
> [exchange] are "munging" a byte or more of the original message
> before it arrives in my inbox, but I'm getting "Bad signature by
> unknown key 61A47CC541AFEF13: Bad signature" on your signed
> messages.

Signature verifies okay here.  Hmm...

Another case of MUA "mutilation", I'd guess :)  Example: In this
snippet of my posting that you included

>  John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550
> 705961A47CC541AFEF13

there is a line break between the two hex fields.  The line break was
not present in my original posting.  What does your MUA show you when
you look at my posting -- with or without that line break?

> (and yes, I notice that your .sig includes what appears to be the
> full fingerprint, but I thought this would be a 16 byte value, not a
> 20 byte value as you have it listed)

- From /usr/share/doc/gnupg-doc/README.gz:

    8 Ways to Specify a User ID
    ---------=-----------------

    There are several ways to specify a user ID, here are some examples.

    [...]

    * By a fingerprint:

	"1234343434343434C434343434343434"
	"123434343434343C3434343434343734349A3434"
	"0E12343434343434343434EAB3484343434343434"

      The first one is a short fingerprint for PGP 2.x style keys.
      The others are long fingerprints for OpenPGP keys.

So it appears that the short (16-byte) version is old.  (Somewhere
there is a historical note on this, but I don't immediately find it.)

> I'm fairly sure I have your "public" key on my keyring, but I got
> that a couple of years ago -- did you create a new one since then?
> [checking... No, I see I have the same fingerprint for you on my
> keyring -- is anyone else seeing "bad" signatures here?]

Correct.  No change.

In any case, just for the record, my key is appended below outside the
signature.  It should also be available with "finger jek at ininx.com".
If this doesn't work for you, please say.

- -- 
 John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13

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