Re: putty public keys and GnuPG

From: Victor Sudakov (vas_at_mpeks.no-spam-here.tomsk.su)
Date: 08/21/04 

Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 04:43:49 +0000 (UTC)

Jacob Nevins wrote:
>>$ gpg --verify putty.zip.RSA
>>gpg: no signed data
>>gpg: can't hash datafile: file open error
>
> $ gpg --verify putty.zip.RSA putty.zip
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^

Try just "gpg --verify putty.zip.RSA" without the second operand.

> gpg: Signature made Tue Aug 3 19:04:19 2004 BST using RSA key ID B41CAE29
> gpg: Good signature from "PuTTY Releases (RSA) <putty-bugs@lists.tartarus.org>"

Now I see. pgp5 by stripping the suffix ".DSA" assumes the file to
verify to be "putty.zip", while GnuPG does not strip the suffix and
cannot find the file to verify (to be more exact, it expects a ".sig"
or an ".asc" suffix and does not strip other suffixes).

If the file to verify is specified explicitly, GnuPG works all right.
If I rename putty.zip.RSA to putty.zip.sig, it also works.
Thanks for the hint. 

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