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On 05.07.14 18:22, Philip Jackson wrote:
> This is weird - I received this email and Thunderbird showed it as
> coming from Onno Ekker.   I clicked on the Details button to view
> key properties and find I'm looking at Patrick Brunschwig's cert
> (which does check with the cert ref shown in the header).
> 
> And reading the email shows that indeed it comes from Patrick.
> 
> Expanding Thunderbird's headers shows clearly that the sender is
> Onno.
> 
> So Patrick is sending out his signed mails under Onno's identity.

No. Onno sent a followup to Patricks message, writing only a few lines
on the top of his message. The rest consists of a full quote of
Patricks message. This message was signed inline and thus, Patricks
signature was also included in the full quote. Enigmail *will* try to
decode signatures in the first quote level and succeeded this time. It
also displays the borders of what was signed. Did you see them?

> Something strange here.

Nothing strange, given the shortcomings of inline-PGP combined with
the drawbacks of top-posting and full quotes.

If Onno would have replied writing his comments inline (which would
have been polite and is preferred on this list) and would have used an
OpenPGP aware mailer, Patricks signature would have been automatically
removed, and everything would have been as it should be.

Even if not using an OpenPGP aware mailer, it would have been smart,
if Onno removed the OpenPGP signature of Patricks message. Even if
not, Patricks signature would have been broken by Onnos inline written
answers.

Things like that happen from time to time on this list and others, and
nobody except the sender can do something about it.

Ludwig

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