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GNUPG FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Version: 0.2
-Last-Modified: Oct 01, 2000
+Last-Modified: Oct 14, 2000
Maintained-by: Nils Ellmenreich <nils 'at' infosun.fmi.uni-passau.de>
This is the GnuPG FAQ. The latest HTML version is available
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6.4) Old versions of GnuPG can't verify ElGamal signatures
6.5) When I use --clearsign, the plain text has sometimes extra dashes
in it - why?
+ 6.6) I have multiple signatures in a file and GnuPG says, the signatures are
+ bad.
7. ADVANCED TOPICS
7.1) How does this whole thing work?
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Good mail clients remove those extra dashes when displaying such a
message.
+6.6) I have multiple signatures in a file and GnuPG says, the signatures are
+ bad.
+
+ Due to different message formats GnuPG is not always able to split such a
+ file unambiguously into the it's parts. The result is that GnuPG claims
+ the signature(s) is bad.
+
+ The only way to have multiple signatures in a file is by using the
+ OpenPGP format with one-pass-signature packets (which is GnuPG's
+ default) or the cleartext signed format.
7. ADVANCED TOPICS