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Re: Outstanding question - rule on cleartext signing last line

nagydani@epointsystem.org (Daniel A. Nagy) Thu, 08 December 2005 13:00 UTC

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To: Ian G <iang@systemics.com>
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Subject: Re: Outstanding question - rule on cleartext signing last line
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On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 11:43:48AM +0000, Ian G wrote:

> So, what you are proposing is that when
> an unterminated message is signed:
> 
> -----BEGIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> 
> this message was signed unterminated
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> b1ab1a
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> 
> It recovers as "this message was signed unterminated"
> as it went in?  And then this becomes:
> 
> 
> -----BEGIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> 
> this message was already terminated
> 
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> b1ab1a
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> 
> which extracts as "this message was already terminated
> " (i.e., preserving its one newline).

Exactly.

-- 
Daniel

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