IETF Logo Mail Archive

Re: Outstanding question - rule on cleartext signing last line

David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com> Mon, 26 December 2005 16:59 UTC

Received: from odin.ietf.org ([132.151.1.176] helo=ietf.org) by megatron.ietf.org with esmtp (Exim 4.32) id 1Eqvgv-0005i5-HL for openpgp-archive@megatron.ietf.org; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 11:59:21 -0500
Received: from above.proper.com (above.proper.com [208.184.76.39]) by ietf.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1a) with ESMTP id LAA05754 for <openpgp-archive@lists.ietf.org>; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 11:58:11 -0500 (EST)
Received: from above.proper.com (localhost.vpnc.org [127.0.0.1]) by above.proper.com (8.12.11/8.12.9) with ESMTP id jBQGmp7d096654; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 08:48:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-ietf-openpgp@mail.imc.org)
Received: (from majordom@localhost) by above.proper.com (8.12.11/8.12.9/Submit) id jBQGmpFb096653; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 08:48:51 -0800 (PST)
X-Authentication-Warning: above.proper.com: majordom set sender to owner-ietf-openpgp@mail.imc.org using -f
Received: from foobar.cs.jhu.edu (foobar.cs.jhu.edu [128.220.13.173]) by above.proper.com (8.12.11/8.12.9) with ESMTP id jBQGmo57096647 for <ietf-openpgp@imc.org>; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 08:48:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dshaw@jabberwocky.com)
Received: from walrus.hsd1.ma.comcast.net (walrus.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [24.60.132.70]) by foobar.cs.jhu.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id jBQGmnS04000; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 11:48:49 -0500
Received: from grover.jabberwocky.com (grover.jabberwocky.com [172.24.84.28]) by walrus.hsd1.ma.comcast.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id jBQGmjX6032132; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 11:48:45 -0500
Received: from grover.jabberwocky.com (grover.jabberwocky.com [127.0.0.1]) by grover.jabberwocky.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jBQGmhGK031067; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 11:48:43 -0500
Received: (from dshaw@localhost) by grover.jabberwocky.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id jBQGmhIQ031066; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 11:48:43 -0500
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 11:48:43 -0500
From: David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
To: Ian G <iang@systemics.com>
Cc: OpenPGP <ietf-openpgp@imc.org>
Subject: Re: Outstanding question - rule on cleartext signing last line
Message-ID: <20051226164843.GA31051@jabberwocky.com>
Mail-Followup-To: Ian G <iang@systemics.com>, OpenPGP <ietf-openpgp@imc.org>
References: <43980274.2080404@iang.org> <20051208104150.GA14918@epointsystem.org> <43981C74.1070403@systemics.com> <87bqzrhj6i.fsf@wheatstone.g10code.de> <20051208145205.GA5943@jabberwocky.com> <43AFE21B.1000102@algroup.co.uk> <20051226153615.GB7066@jabberwocky.com> <43B0184C.6010505@systemics.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <43B0184C.6010505@systemics.com>
OpenPGP: id=99242560; url=http://www.jabberwocky.com/david/keys.asc
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11
Sender: owner-ietf-openpgp@mail.imc.org
Precedence: bulk
List-Archive: <http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:ietf-openpgp-request@imc.org?body=unsubscribe>
List-ID: <ietf-openpgp.imc.org>

On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 04:20:28PM +0000, Ian G wrote:

> So, does this output as a line terminated
> string or as an unterminated string? :
> 
>  -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> 
>  my signed text
>  -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>  xxxxx
>  -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Sorry, I did not answer this in my earlier mail.  This is output as an
unterminated string.  If you wanted it to be output as a terminated
string, you'd have generated this:

>  -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> 
>  my signed text
> 
>  -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>  xxxxx
>  -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Note the blank line between "my signed text" and the BEGIN PGP
SIGNATURE.

David

v2.23.0 | Report a Bug | By Email