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Hi Leo,
On 30 April 2001 at 11:14:33 -0400 (which was 16:14 where I live)
Leo Zelevinsky wrote to Brian Clark on TBUDL and made these points:
LZ> I have tried and failed to set up TB to check PGP signatures - they
LZ> always are displayed as invalid.
:-) This is a common misunderstanding in PGP. "Invalid" actually means
"Not validated". It simply states that my key, on your keyring, hasn't
been certified by you as been valid. To make it valid, you have to
sign it with your key.
When checking signatures, the "Good" or "Bad" status is what is more
important than "Valid" or "Invalid", since the latter only tells you
whether or not you have signed the key.
In the PGP-Log window which TB displays after signature verification,
the left-most icon is a pencil. If there is a red X next to the
pencil then the *signature* is invalid meaning that
1) The signature is faked.
2) The message had been changed since it was sent.
3) Both of the above.
(2) could be caused inadvertently en-route by, for instance, you ISP
planting an advert into the body of the message or TAB characters
being expanded to spaces on receipt.
Anyway, this is all a bit OT for TBUDL and there is a very good PGP
beginners list on yahoogroups called PGP-Basics. I can recommend it
very highly.
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Cheers -- .\\arck D. Pearlstone -- Moderator TBUDL / TBBETA / TBTECH
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[ Any opinions are my own and not those of RIT labs ]
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