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more on Thawte
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I just got back to the PGP signing page, and this is the
error message page when I submit my public key to be signed by them:

Unable to parse that message. Error: Unknown PGP Packet type: 4

Does this shed any light on what their problem is?

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"The Funk, the whole Funk, and nothing but the Funk."
Billy Donahue <mailto:billy@dadadada.net>
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Re: more on Thawte [ In reply to ]
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Billy Donahue, at 01:07 -0400 on Wed, 5 Jul 2000, wrote:

> Unable to parse that message. Error: Unknown PGP Packet type: 4

According to http://www.gnupg.org/rfc2440-5.html, packet type 4 is:
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5.4. One-Pass Signature Packets (Tag 4)

The One-Pass Signature packet precedes the signed data and contains
enough information to allow the receiver to begin calculating any
hashes needed to verify the signature. It allows the Signature
Packet to be placed at the end of the message, so that the signer can
compute the entire signed message in one pass.

A One-Pass Signature does not interoperate with PGP 2.6.x or earlier.
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..and voila. Getting a thawte signature on your key isn't super because,
personally, anyone trusting Thawte's signature is nuts.

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Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
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