GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 224705
PGP signature (mime and armored) verification in Evolution
Last modified: 2002-05-15 21:06:07 UTC
Description of Problem: Evolution mostly fails to verify PGP/GPG signatures, both ASCII armoured as MIME. PGP/MIME: 1. Signatures from mailers other than evolution and mutt fail. Although they are validated correctly by other mailers (e.g. Sylpheed). 2. Signatures made with evolution fail in other mailers, except mutt (and evolution itself) ASCII-armoured: cat text.txt |gpg --clearsign | mail user the result fails in evolution "gpg: armor header: Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) gpg: armor header: Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org gpg: Signature made Tue 14 May 2002 19:32:28 CEST using DSA key ID 28F16C35 gpg: BAD signature from "Guy Van Sanden <Guy.Van.Sanden@Pandora.be>" 'cat text.txt |gpg --clearsign | gpg --verify' gives: "gpg: Signature made Tue 14 May 2002 20:15:15 CEST using DSA key ID 28F16C35 gpg: Good signature from "Guy Van Sanden <Guy.Van.Sanden@Pandora.be>" or saving the file first to text also works. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. PGP/Mime problem: subscribe an address to gnupg-users@gnupg.org (or check out the archives). Most signatures will fail, they won't fail in mutt or sylpheed. 2. ASCII-armoured: follow the steps given above, the longer the text, the more likely the failure. 3. ASCII-armoured: security announcements from SuSE always fail, they're fine from the command line. Actual Results: Signature failes (BAD signature from) Expected Results: Good signature, they can be verified outside evolution How often does this happen? 95% of the time Additional Information: Verified with: GPG 1.0.6 and GPG 1.0.7 Evolution 0.99 (on SuSE 7.3) Evolution 1.0.2 (on SuSE 7.3) Evolution 1.0.3 (on SuSE 8.0) Evolution 1.0.5 (on SuSE 8.0) The problems in bugreport #16738 differ from these. Also because it covers only PGP/Mime, and seems to indicate that the problem lies with the other mailers, which I belief not to be the case. It may have something to do with end-line characters. I saw that mutt and sylpheed ignore '^M' sequences in verification.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 217540 ***