Unwanted attachments

Matthew Hawkins matthew at topic.com.au
Wed Nov 28 10:19:41 EST 2001


On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Adam wrote:
> Has anyone experimented with a faked email message where the GPG
> signature/verification doesn't match the message.  I'm curious as to how
> many people on this list have their email clients configured correctly to
> detect an improperly signed message.

Um.. experimented how?

I've seen it happen, when mime attachments got corrupted by a content
filter and hence the signature no longer matched.  Naturally my mail
client informed me of the fact, but since I didn't know the bloke from a
bar of soap anyway, I didn't particularly care ;)

-- 
Matt




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