I've been seeing this error - and also the problem that if K-9 email receives 
an unsigned reply to a cleartext-signed message, it says "Bad signature" (which 
is half a problem because the actual response is not signed at all) *and* 
refuses to display the text of the received message - which is bad.

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> On Apr 4, 2016, at 10:53, Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> I see in
> 
>  https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/wiki/Crypto-Design-Thoughts
> 
> that there is a notion that it's broken to encrypt but not sign.
> However, I see this pattern quite often, where people don't particularly
> want to cryptographically bind statements to themselves, but do want
> confidentiality.
> 
> I see the point about not providing a keyid for the reverse direction,
> but signing isn't really intended to do that.
> 
> However, I realize that the UI becomes hard.  So I'd suggest for config
> 
>  signing: never, if-encrypted, always
> 
> and perhaps if-encrypted is not necessary, but I bet some people want
> it.
> 
> For encryption, I see
> 
>  encrypt: never, if-available, if-available, always
> 
> I think per-recipient policy is needed; the point is to force it to
> always for people that you know have keys and that want encrypted mail.
> Probably this should be stored in contacts, as a property, and be
> general, but it could be a lookaside table in k-9.
> 
> Finally, when replying to a message that was decrypted, policy should
> be forced, more or less, to encrypt always.  It should take significant
> effort (popup with warning) to send an unencrypted reply to an encrypted
> message, with or without quoted text.
> 
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