Re: Outstanding question - rule on cleartext signing last line

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Thu, 08 December 2005 12:43 UTC

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From: Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>
To: Ian G <iang@systemics.com>
Cc: "Daniel A. Nagy" <nagydani@epointsystem.org>, OpenPGP <ietf-openpgp@imc.org>
Subject: Re: Outstanding question - rule on cleartext signing last line
References: <43980274.2080404@iang.org> <20051208104150.GA14918@epointsystem.org> <43981C74.1070403@systemics.com>
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Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 13:23:01 +0100
In-Reply-To: <43981C74.1070403@systemics.com> (Ian G.'s message of "Thu, 08 Dec 2005 11:43:48 +0000")
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On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 11:43:48 +0000, Ian G said:

> But I think we need to hear from the PGP Inc and GPG
> architects on this?

I recall that we tweaked gpg's behaviour in this regard until all
users were satisfied.  Thus I'd say not to add new requirement to the
specs.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner