[6510] in SIPB bug reports
Re: exmh & PGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Tue Sep 30 09:51:50 1997
To: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>, bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 30 Sep 1997 09:51:27 -0400
In-Reply-To: "Jacob Morzinski"'s message of Mon, 29 Sep 1997 21:02:35 EDT
Unfortunately PGP 5.0 isn't available for most Unix platforms, and it
isn't available is source form yet. Therefore, it cannot replace PGP
2.6.2 in the PGP Locker. Sorry. You'll have to wait, or tell your
correspondents to use PGP 2.6.2-compatible algorithms.
-derek
"Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
> On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> >I thought you might want to know if you don't that the current version of
> >exmh needs to be updated for the new PGP standard (5.0). When trying to
> >read a mail that jis signed, I get:
> >
> >ERROR: Header line added to ASCII armor: "Hash: SHA1"
> >ASCII armor corrupted.
>
>
> Thanks for the report; actually the problem is with pgp instead
> of with exmh. Exmh depends on pgp to process the message, and
> pgp-2.6 can't deal with the pgp-5 messages.
>
> (I've sent mail to the people in charge of the pgp locker.)
>
> --
> Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@mit.edu>
--
Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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