It is not possible to clear-sign binaries with PGP. The point of clear- signing is to have signed text that is readable to people who don't have the software necessary to process the text. It would make sense to clearsign a file
that
is base64'ed or uuencoded, which wouldn't alter the contents of the file. I can't see how such an option would be harmful, except that it might lose some characters that are important to the context of the message.
Mark, Of course you can use pgp to sign binaries. How else did the pgp binary itself get signed? You can either sign it in a separate file, or in the same file. PGP sorts it out for you. What do you use it for? Same reasons you sign text. "I signed this file" means that you vouch for it in some undefined way (maybe I wrote and compiled it, or somesuch). Clay *************************************************************************** Clay Olbon II * Clay.Olbon@dynetics.com Systems Engineer * PGP262 public key on web page Dynetics, Inc. * http://www.msen.com/~olbon/olbon.html ***************************************************************** TANSTAAFL