>
>  SR> Error - signature verification failed
>
>  SR> gpg command line and output:
>  SR> /usr/bin/gpg --charset utf8  --batch --no-tty --status-fd 2 -d gpg:
>  SR> Signature made Thu 05 Jul 2001 19:19:32 IST using RSA key ID
>  SR> B60C20C5 gpg: BAD signature from "waldo kitty
>  SR> "

well, that is the proper KeyID...

what does gpg mean by "BAD signature"?? the sig section was
wrong? the text file didn't match the sig? something else?

when i check the files for both pkdrop and pubkeys they validate and they
are the ones that get posted in each echo... they were created 8 years ago
and are only read from once or twice a month for posting in these two
related echos...

i wonder if the file got reformatted in route? it is a standard DOS 7bit
ASCII plain text file over here... cp850 IIRC... nothing fancy...

> i've never used gpg... only this one (below) since it was released...
>
> 4DOS-7.50 (0) | X:\PGP >pgp
> Pretty Good Privacy(tm) 2.6.2 - Public-key encryption for the masses.
> (c) 1990-1994 Philip Zimmermann. [The Rebellious Guerrilla May 21 1995]
> Does NOT use the RSAREF(tm) Toolkit!
>
>
> no backdoors in there :P
>

 SR> I prefer gpg as it is multiplatform, I have the same keys in Vista
 SR> and Linux and I can use them in OSX as well

i can understand that... i only use(d) it on my OS/2 box that houses the
bbs and main server apps... i looked at taking it to my other boxen but
since i don't need it on them and hardly ever use it anyway, well... ;)

)\/(ark