-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Wed, 3 Jul 1996, snow wrote:
On Wed, 3 Jul 1996, Alan Olsen wrote:
I am wondering why there is not a signing option that ignores all non-printing characters. Might fix some of these problems... (Can anyone think of a reason this would be a "Bad Thing(tm)"?)
IANACE, but off the top of my head I'd say clear signing binaries.
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 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= markm@voicenet.com | finger -l for PGP key 0xe3bf2169 http://www.voicenet.com/~markm/ | d61734f2800486ae6f79bfeb70f95348 "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows." --George Orwell, _1984_ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMdwIoLZc+sv5siulAQHVegQAqeyjQY9SmQ4mM1/ezBDeI9MLa3EZ8620 JXrbxYCt74zUFzqC8GxylUE9cowdZmDrQ2NbYepWbekoY/cmSE3lxJPd1VW36Lbo NY3c1iNswvUiAsfXPUA+tBide/aZCk/vniHXFwLBPJi+gRTjktpbIUNixoxW3B5z xJSFusVl8Lg= =QUGA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----