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Re: [OT] digital signature security problem? (Tony Steward)

• Posted by euman at bellsouth.net Apr 28, 2003
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This is interesting, I used an older verion of PGP 6.03
(or something close) and never recieved a complaint.

I am concerned about messages that come from
Robert Elia. The messages arive with what appear
to be attachments however, there are no files.
Strange....

Euman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Derek Parnell" <ddparnell at bigpond.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2003 11:59 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] digital signature security problem? (Tony Steward)


> 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