Re: PGP sign highlight on mutt

From: Zen (zen@kill-9.it)
Date: 10/26/01 

Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 17:31:47 +0200
From: Zen <zen@kill-9.it>
To: "Ademar de Souza Reis Jr." <ademar@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: PGP sign highlight on mutt
Message-ID: <20011026173147.K8659@inferno.dsnet.it>

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 12:38:58PM -0200, Ademar de Souza Reis Jr. wrote:
> The point here is that since the most notorious one is (3), you can
> copy&paste it in a message body (change times and some details) and
> let mutt users think a message is signed when it's not.
I agree with you, but only if you know the language settings of the
client. I mean: having set LANG=it_IT, the good signature message
gets translated[1], as in 

---
[-- Segue l'output di PGP (ora attuale: ven 26 ott 2001 17:26:32 CEST) --]
gpg: Firma fatta sab 20 ott 2001 20:31:11 CEST usando la chiave DSA con IDxxxxx
gpg: Impossibile controllare la firma: chiave pubblica non trovata
[-- Fine dell'output di PGP --]

[-- I seguenti dati sono firmati --]
---

so you would have to know the LANG value for the targetted client.
Not so difficult in many cases, but anyway...

[1] On Linux/debian unstable, mutt 1.3.23-1

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