Re: Signing ascii text

The problem with signing whitespace-compressed canonicalized text isn't the loss of readability, since you can send the non-canonicalized version for humans. The problem is that sometimes the white space IS significant Project-Schedule 1992 1993 1994 Phase 1 X Phase 2 X Phase 3 X would acquire the same signature if you moved the Xs to different columns. If we're going to treat white space in text as significant, we made need to adopt a scheme such as MIME's =xx content-transfer-ncodings; Otherwise we need to declare by fiat that white space is not significant unless protected by an encoding. Bill Stewart