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Clear signing problem
Hi,

I can't seem to clear sign a file. Sorry if I'm missing something
obvious here, but what I'm trying to do is so simple I don't see what
it could be...

| 01:37:38@cookie| ~ $gpg --clearsign 3
| gpg (GnuPG) 0.4.3; Copyright (C) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
| This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
| This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
| under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.
|
| gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!
|
| You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
| user: "James Troup <james@nocrew.org>"
| (1024-bit DSA key, ID 580426F1, created 1998-11-09)
|
| 01:37:45@cookie| ~ $gpg 3.asc > /dev/null
| gpg (GnuPG) 0.4.3; Copyright (C) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
| This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
| This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
| under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.
|
| gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!
| gpg: Signature made Mon Nov 9 01:37:45 1998 GMT using DSA key ID 580426F1
| gpg: BAD signature from "James Troup <james@nocrew.org>"
| 01:38:06@cookie| ~ $

0x580426F1 is a freshly generated key, nothing strange about it.

--
James
Re: Clear signing problem [ In reply to ]
James Troup <james@nocrew.org> writes:

> | 01:37:38@cookie| ~ $gpg --clearsign 3

And what is 3 - an empty file? I know that there are problems with
empty or one-line-files-without-LF.
Re: Clear signing problem [ In reply to ]
Werner Koch <wk@isil.d.shuttle.de> writes:

> James Troup <james@nocrew.org> writes:
>
> > | 01:37:38@cookie| ~ $gpg --clearsign 3
>
> And what is 3 - an empty file?

Nope; it wasn't. I cunningly deleted the file though, sorry, and now
I can't reproduce the bug.

--
James