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 Message 518 
 Wilfred van Velzen to August Abolins 
 Re: GOOD for you, BAD for me 
 11 Jan 20 18:24:15 
 
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Hi August,

On 2020-01-11 19:12:27, you wrote to me:

 AA>>> What made it report BAD for me? It was exactly the same pub key
 AA>>> pair between us. The exact time and date proved that.

 WvV>> So if the keys weren't the problem. Something must have changed
 WvV>> in the plain text that was signed, before it reached you, that
 WvV>> made it fail the verify...

 AA> So, when it says "BAD signature", it's talking about the signature of
 AA> the message?

Yes.

 AA> Hmmm.  A single char difference (maybe the odd =20 char) gets
 AA> introduced) and messes up the "signature" of the message.

Yes.

 AA> I see that happening when I need to copy/paste the contents of a PGP
 AA> block and paste it into my BlackBerry's pgp decryptor window. It always
 AA> seem to return an error and never decrypts.

Ok...

Bye, Wilfred.

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