From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 8 14: 2:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.system (pec-6-235.tnt2.m2.uunet.de [149.225.6.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 68FE937B405 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 14:02:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@analogon.com) Received: (qmail 23907 invoked by uid 1013); 8 Aug 2001 21:02:23 -0000 Received: from laptop.system (HELO laptop) (192.168.1.9) by daemon.system with SMTP; 8 Aug 2001 21:02:23 -0000 Message-ID: <004c01c1204d$43d6b640$0901a8c0@system> From: "Thomas Beer" To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: References: <15216.30828.442770.319628@guru.mired.org> Subject: Re: Fw: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:52.fragment Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 23:01:16 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, > Comment 1) If you really want people to confirm a PGP signature, you > need to send the message unmodified. That means you can't send it > quoted by your mailer, or in mangled in any other way; you have to > send it as an attachement. This was/ is a freebsd security advisory and I thougth/ think, that I am not the only one on this list who will receive it... > > Comment 2) Asking others to verify a signature doesn't say a thing > about the validity of the signature. If they say it's fine for them, > that means you need to figure out why your software is complaining > about the signature and verify it yourself, *not* trust it. the second advisory, from the same day was fine... Greetings Tom > > -- > Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message