Digital Signature problems?

Rick Cooper rcooper at DWFORD.COM
Thu May 20 00:46:57 IST 2004


Every time I have seen those in a mailing list when I check the cert it is
self signed so I would think the warning is appropriate

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> Behalf Of Kevin Miller
> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 3:39 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Digital Signature problems?
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>
> I was seeing those here on the list a week or so ago.  I figured it was
> because the list server was adding a footer, thus munging the signature.
> Might they be adding a footer on the way out, or are you adding
> anything on
> the way in?
>
> ...Kevin
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> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Max Kipness [mailto:mkipness at GENIANT.COM]
> >Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 12:18 PM
> >To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> >Subject: Re: Digital Signature problems?
> >
> >
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> We have a client that has started sending us emails with digital
> >>> signatures as of late. It seems we are having a problem opening up
> >the
> >>> email as it is stating: The digital signature on this message is
> >>> invalid or not trusted.
> >
> >>Are you signing clean messages?  If so you need to turn this off for
> >digitally signed messages, as any alteration to the
> >>message body will break the signatures.
> >
> >I do have this turned of for one client. But this affects outbound
> >email.
> >
> >I'm talking about emails being sent from an outside email domain, to
> >users inside our network, with digital signature, that gets virus/spam
> >scanned by MailScanner.
> >
> >Max
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