Cleartext Signatures

Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk> Mon, 10 October 2005 11:01 UTC

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:43:05 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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Section 7 says that the last bit of a cleartext signature is:

"The ASCII armored signature(s) including the '-----BEGIN PGP 
SIGNATURE-----' Armor Header and Armor Tail Lines."

This is ambiguous, since in previous sections "Armor Header" has 
referred to name/value pairs, of which there could be none or more than 
one, and not the "-----blah-----" line, which is called the "Armor 
Header Line".

Since I have seen signature both with and without headers (i.e. some 
with no headers do not have a blank line between the header line and the 
armoured text), I'd like to know what is actually correct here!

Cheers,

Ben.

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