privnote breaks encrypted notes

[LanceHaverkamp]

Your system is deleting blank lines, this breaks OpenPGP encrypted
notes. They will not decrypt properly with the blank carriage returns
or line feeds stripped-out:

A received pgp message should like like this first example, but your
system is delivering it like the second example. Yes it's fixable if
the user knows what's happening, but it's a problem for non-crypto
geeks.

Thanks,

Lance


-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: http://getfiregpg.org

hQIOA4Jw5sbgrqHVEAgAsE+Eo8qzvMsvuif6SbAM9NbbvfHbhT3egB57f/sH56G+
degWnxwMgaSTgSpKoye6iqd5Med7HNHIMyC6pN/IW4OSLMTwhYRErcBlrsgXpigb
5198U5tGmlR/mGuwYaG3T+IQVGBXUZLjI3bXgGEvCoc6wDv/eBfKd2K4ygDx/9ov
9PpTgnIwTfAv5KlXO4y5S6u+BArDxo/88UtdLq0m4DQxEUUN8LcC3HPokcECx2s7


-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: http://getfiregpg.orghQIOA4Jw5sbgrqHVEAgAsE+Eo8qzvMsvuif6SbAM9NbbvfHbhT3egB57f/sH56G+
degWnxwMgaSTgSpKoye6iqd5Med7HNHIMyC6pN/IW4OSLMTwhYRErcBlrsgXpigb
5198U5tGmlR/mGuwYaG3T+IQVGBXUZLjI3bXgGEvCoc6wDv/eBfKd2K4ygDx/9ov
9PpTgnIwTfAv5KlXO4y5S6u+BArDxo/88UtdLq0m4DQxEUUN8LcC3HPokcECx2s7

[Pablo Hoffman]

Hi Lance, Privnote removes TAB characters (\t) but not blank lines. Is
this a problem for you?.

I tried to reproduce the problem with the OpenPGP encrypted text you
sent and it seems to be received fine.

Pablo.

On Oct 25, 4:27 am, LanceHaverkamp <La...@thehaverkamps.net> wrote:
> Your system is deleting blank lines, this breaks OpenPGP encrypted
> notes.  They will not decrypt properly with the blank carriage returns
> or line feeds stripped-out:
>
> A received pgp message should like like this first example, but your
> system is delivering it like the second example.  Yes it's fixable if
> the user knows what's happening, but it's a problem for non-crypto
> geeks.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lance
>
> -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
> Comment:http://getfiregpg.org
>
> hQIOA4Jw5sbgrqHVEAgAsE+Eo8qzvMsvuif6SbAM9NbbvfHbhT3egB57f/sH56G+
> degWnxwMgaSTgSpKoye6iqd5Med7HNHIMyC6pN/IW4OSLMTwhYRErcBlrsgXpigb
> 5198U5tGmlR/mGuwYaG3T+IQVGBXUZLjI3bXgGEvCoc6wDv/eBfKd2K4ygDx/9ov
> 9PpTgnIwTfAv5KlXO4y5S6u+BArDxo/88UtdLq0m4DQxEUUN8LcC3HPokcECx2s7
>
> -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)

> Comment:http://getfiregpg.orghQIOA4Jw5sbgrqHVEAgAsE+Eo8qzvMsvuif6SbAM9NbbvfHb...
> degWnxwMgaSTgSpKoye6iqd5Med7HNHIMyC6pN/IW4OSLMTwhYRErcBlrsgXpigb
> 5198U5tGmlR/mGuwYaG3T+IQVGBXUZLjI3bXgGEvCoc6wDv/eBfKd2K4ygDx/9ov
> 9PpTgnIwTfAv5KlXO4y5S6u+BArDxo/88UtdLq0m4DQxEUUN8LcC3HPokcECx2s7

[LanceHaverkamp]

Sorry,

The fact that the sample worked properly was entirely my fault.
I posted that so you could visually see the change. But that was not
an original version form GPG.

If you post something using any GUI for GPG, I think you will see that
the message is modified.

Every time I try (with any GUI) I get an error message similar to
this:

Decryption failed. Unknown error.
gpg: invalid armor header: mfCVsMspk/zJau5G7tAU1OLPDYr4Z8JYVSaK/
FAaBVkrhw8lhiF6v0fhdmX7kokc\n
gpg: CRC error; 5044FD - E57EC8
gpg: packet(6) with unknown version 176
[GNUPG:] NODATA 3



Sorry for the confusion,

Lance