From: Jonathan Rochkind
When people have been posting their public keys, or encrypted address blocks, to various lists I'm on, all of the "-----BEGIN whatever..." lines seem to have a "- " preppended to them. So, for instance, they look like:
- -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2 [stuff] - -----END PGP MESSAGE-----
I'm guessing if I really sent a block like that to a remailer, the remailer would hork because of the prepended "- "s. I know that sometimes people's public keys they've posted to a list look like that, and when I try to add them to PGP, it horks, and I've got to go into a text editor and remove the "- ", and then add it to my keyring.
Does anyone know what it is that's putting in these "- "s, why it's putting them in, and how to stop it?
pgp is putting those extra "- " pieces in (guess you didn't read all your pgp docs :-), it does that so that it can tell the difference between pgp begin/end blocks and other stuff, kinda like sendmail "quoting" lines beginning with a dot with an extra dot. the difference here is that sendmail removes any leading dots before delivery and pgp doesn't after removing a signature. yeah, you do have to load it into an editor but mailing something to a remailer shoud not "hork" it. the pgp running on the remailer will just "- " the stuff and include it literally. follow? -- --< "CYBERBOY" >-- andrew@ml.com (Andrew Brown) Phone: 1.212.449.0088 Fax: 1.212.449.8612