Thanks for your post. I wonder if I might ask for an example please useing perhaps this line in the example -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
thankyou dmdm David Shaw wrote: > > On Mar 7, 2009, at 5:28 AM, dmdm wrote: > >> >> When I sign a message that contains a gpg key what happens is that >> the key >> has the '-' >> missing at top and bottom of key. its ok before its signed .(see >> example >> below) > > That is a normal part of OpenPGP called "dash escaping". Basically, > since your signature itself starts with a dash (as part of "-----BEGIN > PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----") any other dashes, such as those surrounding > your key that you're including in the signed message, need to be > escaped so the message parser does not get confused. The way this is > done is to append a "- " (a dash and a space) to the beginning of each > dash. > > Just verify the message to check the signature, and what comes out of > the verification step has all the escaping removed so you can use the > key you included. > > David > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/gpg-messages-error-after-signing-tp22386253p22395706.html Sent from the GnuPG - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
