RE: [OT] digital signature security problem? (Tony Steward)
Derek Parnell wrote:
>
> On Sun, 27 Apr 2003 20:50:54 -0700, Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Note to self:
> >
> > It's probably just the topica additions that make the content of Tony's
> > posts differ from what they were when he digitally signed them.
> >
> > Note to Tony:
> > If that's the case, then it's probably not a good idea to digitally sign
> > posts to Topica?
> >
>
> You culd be right, Dan. I had similar problems when using PGP to sign
> email
> that was sent using the Opera email client. Opera has a 'feature' that
> concatenates email lines that end in a space character. This caused the
> message to be subtly changed and when PGP tried to verify the signed
> message, it reported that it had been tampered with.
>
> --
>
> cheers,
> Derek Parnell
>
Sorry Guys & gals
I didn't realise this was a problem.
Reagrds
Tony
Give your hardest tasks to your lasiest workers.
They will always find the easiest way to complete it.
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