Re: GPG Issues

On Nov 19, 2004, at 2:41 AM, Omega Man wrote:
> Greetings, I've been having problems with GPG encrypted msging. GPG  
> Encrypted msgs, work fine from Fire.app to Fire.app users, over ICQ  
> usually, but also on other IM networks. However, recently I have tried  
> encrypted GPG msging to other users, on other platforms, who use PSI.   
> PSI supports GPG encrypted msging. I have tried, with myself and the  
> other users on Jabber, or with them on Jabber, with a ICQ/MSN/Yahoo  
> bridge, and encrypted msging doesn't seem to work in relation to my  
> receiving end.
>
> I am able to send encrypted msgs fine, users are able to read it,  
> however PSI oddly shows them that encryption is off, however I am  
> sending encrypted msgs according to Fire.app. When they enable  
> encryption with sending and send me msgs, I cannot read them, all I  
> receive in the Fire.app msg window, when an encrypted msg is sent, is:  
>  [This message is encrypted.]
>
> No other error msg is shown, in any of the console logs and so forth.  
> All users involved have all the relative public keys and so forth. PSI  
> to PSI encrypted msging works fine. So it seems to be, an issue with  
> Fire.app, being unable to read encrypted msgs sent from PSI, PSI users  
> can read the encrypted msgs I send fine from Fire.app.  Anyone have  
> any suggestions? Is this a known issue? How would we go about fixing  
> this?
>
> I'm running GPG 1.2.6, Fire Snapshot Development Build: Built Nov  9  
> 2004 14:18:54 (v1.1-b1) on Mac OS X 10.3.6

It's a known issue that Fire's use of GPG does not interoperate with  
other Jabber clients.

[ 877637 ] Jabber OpenPGP Usage
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? 
func=detail&aid=877637&group_id=33772&atid=409173

Patches welcomed. :)

-Jason



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