[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#733195: Bug#733195: gnupg: quoted printable character in armor

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

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thanks

Hi Kingsley,

On Thu, December 26, 2013 23:51, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote:
> Someone I know uses an Apple computer to send me
> encrypted emails.

>     Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

> I found that my email client, version 1.5.21-6.4
> of mutt, can work around the problem by actually
> changing pgp's message, without prompting me for
> my gpg pass phrase.

> The upshot is that mutt deleted three "3D"s at the
> end of PGP's message to change
>
>     =3D=3D
>     =3D
>
> to
>
>     ==
>     =

Your friend sends you messages which are encoded in quoted-printable
format, as rightly declared by the message header. Mutt first undoes the
quoted-printable encoding, as is exactly what any mail client should do
before further processing the message. If you undo the quoted-printable
encoding, you will get the original text as it was encrypted by your
friend. So this is the thing that GnuPG is able to decrypt.

This all seems to work as designed. What is the bug?


Thijs