On Mar 7, 2009, at 5:28 AM, dmdm wrote:
When I sign a message that contains a gpg key what happens is that
the key
has the '-'
missing at top and bottom of key. its ok before its signed .(see
example
below)
That is a normal part of OpenPGP called "dash escaping". Basically,
since your signature itself starts with a dash (as part of "-----BEGIN
PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----") any other dashes, such as those surrounding
your key that you're including in the signed message, need to be
escaped so the message parser does not get confused. The way this is
done is to append a "- " (a dash and a space) to the beginning of each
dash.
Just verify the message to check the signature, and what comes out of
the verification step has all the escaping removed so you can use the
key you included.
David
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