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Re: [openpgp] A way to securely define cleartext signature charset

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Tue, 11 September 2018 13:59 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] A way to securely define cleartext signature charset
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On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 12:14, aheinecke@intevation.de said:

> basically means: If no charset notation is provided a cleartext signature MUST 
> be in UTF-8?

Yes, that is due to 

  ## {3.4} Text
  
  Unless otherwise specified, the character set for text is the UTF-8
  [](#RFC3629) encoding of Unicode [](#ISO10646).

this has not changed since 2440.  But agreed in the beginning the world
was US-centric and this fact was often overlooked. And PGP-2 had no such
definition.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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