At 9:23 PM 3/21/94 -0800, Christopher Allen wrote:

At 12:21 AM 3/19/94 -0700, mdbomber@w6yx.stanford.edu wrote:

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I tried turning RIPEM Mac loose on this message and it complains about a garbled Originator Certificate, then complains that it does not appear to be a PEM/RIPEM message.

Did anyone else get this to work?

I've tested this further - like you I can't seem to verify the press release using RIPEM Mac. However, I did find someone with the RIPEM 1.2 software installed and it does verify with that software.

I've sent a copy to Ray Lau, the author of RIPEM Mac, as I know that he is working on incorporating the features of RIPEM 1.2 in the next version of RIPEM Mac.

I did send a report to Ray Lau, the author of RIPEM Mac. This is his response: At 11:13 PM 3/22/94 -0500, raylau@MIT.EDU wrote:

I've figured out the problem.

Jim did indeed change his keypair for RIPEM 1.2 so the forged msg. is because the keypair in the pubkeys file on rpub.cl.msu.edu is outdated.

Also, since RIPEM 1.2 now supports certificates, but because it is not fully PEM compliant, it uses a certificate in a RIPEM 2001 (not PEM 4) msg. proc-type. I have not had the chance to update RIPEM Mac to recognize certificates within the 2001 proc type yet.

So, that is the gist of it.

-Ray

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