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RE: Is cygwin-ml softwere altering message content?
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:11:36 +0100
- Subject: RE: Is cygwin-ml softwere altering message content?
On 18 August 2006 13:39, Max Bowsher wrote:
> The RFCs indicate that it is the encoded form which is signed and verified.
<boggle> You're kidding! No wonder it's so fragile. I'd consider it bad
architecture to sign/verify a non-canonical representation.
> The problem is that the sourceware mailer is decoding the MIME part and
> re-encoding it into a subtly different form.
>
> It's irrelevant that the two encoded forms happen to decode to the same
> result, since it is the encoded form which is signed.
Yes, of course it is in that case.
> I feel I do fully understand the situation.
So do I. You should definitely have a word with overseers, although there
may be some good reason for the reformatting, perhaps related to the
requirements of the web archives. We'll just have to see.
> Are you saying that you got a verification error for my message with
> Message-ID <44E46C29.3050005@ukf.net> ?
> That would be bizarre, since it verifies fine for me.
Yeh, but it's just down to Outlook munging the text when it exports it. Why
can't M$ software ever just save your data, rather than tampering with it
because it thinks it knows better than you what it should be? Feh!
cheers,
DaveK
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