Re: gnupg_verify help needed

From: Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 15:45:25 +0000
Subject: Re: gnupg_verify help needed
References: 1  Groups: php.general php.internals php.qa 
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Tsvetan Nikolov wrote: > I've been fighting with gnupg_verify for days now and cannot understand how > it works. It returns an array in the form of: > > array ( 0 => array ( 'fingerprint' => 'BLABLABLA' > 'validity' => 0 > 'timestamp' => 1402666925 'status' => 117440521 'summary' > => 128 ) ) > > I don't understand which part of the array actually shows us that the > verification went well. Do I have to compare the fingerprint or the status > is enough. But then I get different statuses and don't know what they all > mean. Same with summary. On other occasions I get different unexplainable > results like status=>0 validity=>4. There is no documentation on what each > of these means. According to <http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.gnupg-verify.php>: | Verifies the given signed_text and returns information about the | signature. | ... | On success, this function returns information about the signature. On | failure, this function returns FALSE. So for basic verification it should suffice to check that the return value !== false. [xpost & fup2 php-general@lists.php.net] -- Christoph M. Becker

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