[Enigmail] How to detect what causes bad signature?

2014-07-18 Thread Alexander Buchner
I have received a mail for which enigmail says: BAD signature from XXX How can I find out why the signature is bad? (I don't want to post the mail on the mailing list.) ___ enigmail-users mailing list enigmail-users@enigmail.net To unsubscribe or

Re: [Enigmail] How to detect what causes bad signature?

2014-07-18 Thread Ludwig Hügelschäfer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, On 18.07.14 11:21, Alexander Buchner wrote: I have received a mail for which enigmail says: BAD signature from XXX How can I find out why the signature is bad? (I don't want to post the mail on the mailing list.) There are many many

Re: [Enigmail] How to detect what causes bad signature?

2014-07-18 Thread Alexander Buchner
Am 18.07.2014 11:58 schrieb Ludwig Hügelschäfer: On 18.07.14 11:21, Alexander Buchner wrote: I have received a mail for which enigmail says: BAD signature from XXX How can I find out why the signature is bad? (I don't want to post the mail on the mailing list.) There are many many reasons.

Re: [Enigmail] How to detect what causes bad signature?

2014-07-18 Thread Ludwig Hügelschäfer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 18.07.14 13:22, Alexander Buchner wrote: Sending and receiving mail applications: Thunderbird 24.6.0 on both sides Sender uses Enigmail 1.5.2, I use 1.7 Inline-PGP oder PGP/MIME format: Inline plaintext or HTML: plaintext The mail

Re: [Enigmail] How to detect what causes bad signature?

2014-07-18 Thread Alexander Buchner
Am 18.07.2014 13:45 schrieb Ludwig Hügelschäfer: So you have the possibility to compare sent and received message. You could do that by hand or by a file diff tool after exporting the message out of Thunderbird. When using Inline-PGP, the most frequent cause for bad signatures are line length

Re: [Enigmail] How to detect what causes bad signature?

2014-07-18 Thread Ludwig Hügelschäfer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 18.07.14 14:18, Alexander Buchner wrote: I went to my co-worker and made him give me the source of his mail. It wasn't altered during transport but thunderbird also showed bad signature for the mail in his sent folder. So it seems that he

Re: [Enigmail] How to detect what causes bad signature?

2014-07-18 Thread Alexander Buchner
Am 18.07.2014 15:50 schrieb Ludwig Hügelschäfer: Well, that could be either a bug in Enigmail 1.5.2 which has been fixed in the meantime or a still undiscovered or unfixed bug. Next step would be now that he upgrades to Enigmail 1.7 and send exactly the same message again. If that yields a good

Re: [Enigmail] How to detect what causes bad signature?

2014-07-18 Thread Patrick Brunschwig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18.07.14 14:18, Alexander Buchner wrote: Am 18.07.2014 13:45 schrieb Ludwig Hügelschäfer: So you have the possibility to compare sent and received message. You could do that by hand or by a file diff tool after exporting the message out of