OT: Gripe about corrupted signed messages to the list

[Matt Kettler]

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Mike Zanker wrote:

> 
>>> The problem is that this list adds a signature to all messages, which corrupts your digital signature. Some mail clients like to display warnings about said messages (and rightly so!) saying that they've been altered in transit.
> 
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> PGP/GPG marks the signed part so that things like this shouldn't happen.
> 
> Mike.

Since Joshua mentioned certificates, I'm fairly certain he was strictly
referring to s/mime signatures, not PGP/GPG signatures (which don't use
certificates).

S/Mime signs a whole mime segment, and doesn't deal well with list signatures.

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