Re: Outstanding question - rule on cleartext signing last line

[Ben Laurie <[e-mail]>]

David Shaw wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 01:23:01PM +0100, Werner Koch wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I agree.  I think the spec is just fine in this regard: the final CRLF
> (the one before the "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----") is not part of
> the signature.  That allows for the GPG behavior to preserve the
> presence or lack of line ending on the last line.

However, it doesn't. This strikes me as a bug both in GPG and in the spec.

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