Re: [Evolution] Known PGP/MIME Problem

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

In short, 1.0.x is known to be faulty.
1.2.x should not be faulty.

I had mutt fail on some evolution generated test cases, but in these
cases mutt was at fault (it was truncating the last blank line of quoted
printable data).


On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 11:42, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> In Evolution 1.0.x, we did not treat signed parts as "opaque" because
> our MIME parser had been written to comply with previous MIME
> specifications which did not define such a type. It is, in our opinion,
> broken that rfc2015 requires signed 
> parts to be treated as opaque
> because it is placing further restrictions which did not previously
> exist for MIME. This is an absolute no-no when extending standard
> protocols. Then, of course, the PGP/MIME authors broke things yet again
> when they released the newer rfc3156 specification which was not fully
> compatable with rfc2015.
>
> So, to answer your question: in Evolution 1.2, we have modified the
> parser to special-case multipart/signed so that we keep the raw data
> (this is what opaque means) so that when we go to verify the signature,
> we feed gpg the raw data as originally found in the mbox file.
>
> So, if signatures are failing to verify then it is likely that either:
>
> 1) the signature was created according to rfc2015 rules or...
> 2) the signature is broken (assuming that gpg doesn't have any bugs)
>
> Jeff
>
> On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 18:53, Dave Barton wrote:
> > In response to a recent posting I made to the GnuPg users list, I
> > received a reply that there is a "known" problem with Evolution and
> > PGP/MIME.
> >
> > With the exception of a couple of signatures which will not verify, I
> > have not experienced any problems with PGP/MIME using Evolution 1.2
> >
> > Is there a "known" problem?
> >
> > Dave
> -- 
> Jeffrey Stedfast
> Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
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