Re: How to verify header signed (tinews.pl) posts?

On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 01:08:37PM +0200, Michael Heiming wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Looks as if news.tin.org would be read-only trough nntp.;(

yes and this is intentional.

> How can one verify those posts, preferable in tin?

via pgpverify(1)
<http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/docs/pgpverify.html>
(e.g. "|""pgpverify"

> Is the whole post "protected" through gpg, from a closer view at
> tines.pl it looks like or just the header?

which is sufficant as you can't reuse the article as Message-ID and
Date are singed (and servers keep the ID for some time and afterwards
tend to reject postings which do have a date header long time in the
past).

urs
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