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Re: Outstanding question - rule on cleartext signing last line

nagydani@epointsystem.org (Daniel A. Nagy) Mon, 26 December 2005 21:44 UTC

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On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 05:03:59PM +0000, Ben Laurie wrote:

> I have just tested GPG yet again, and cleartext signatures of two files,
> one without a newline at the end, and one with, look identical:
> 
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> test
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD)

Yepp, that's a bug in GPG and it does not follow from the spec. My
implementation does not do that. In my opinion, the correct behavior would
be reversible.
The output of gpg --clearsign should be identical to that converted from the
output of gpg -ts.

-- 
Daniel

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