From: Martin Pool <mbp@pharos.com.au>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 08:44:46 +0800
To: Jim Burnes <jim.burnes@ssds.com>
Subject: Re: Bad signature from announce@lp.org
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On Wed, 20 Aug 1997, Jim Burnes wrote:

> > > ------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > > 
> > > ===============================================
> > > NEWS FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY
> > > 2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 100
> > > Washington DC 20037
> > > ===============================================
> > [...]
> > 
> > On my machine, using keyid 1024/A7406ED1 <announce@lp.org> the signature
> > did not match the message.  Most likely there was a harmless alteration in
> > the process of being forwarded, but possibly the message is bogus. 
> > 
> > Martin Pool
> > 
> > 
> 
> Yes...the "-------- Forwarded Message Follows ------" line.
> 
> Unless you already took that into account in which case its
> probably the ">" symbols or something to that effect.

No, the "-------- Forwarded Message Follows ------" line is before the PGP
begin line, so I think it should not corrupt the signature.  I can't see
any '>' quotes inside the message.  I suppose probably there's an extra
space or newline in there.  I'm not 100% sure if PGP collapses
whitespace to avoid this or not... I imagine probably not.

Martin Pool