Signing ASCII text
Edgar W. Swank
edgar at spectrx.saigon.com
Mon Dec 28 00:53:59 PST 1992
I was able to verify Hal Finney's signed plaintext message posted here
on Dec 23 with a good signature. Hal says he prepared the original
plaintext with no trailing blanks. The editor I use removes trailing
blanks whenever it saves text to disk. So there could have been
trailing blanks in the plaintext I received (which would have spoiled
the signature match) put there by ASCII uploading (of blank lines) or
otherwise and I wouldn't know it.
I can't really fault mailers that remove trailing blanks; they are
trying to avoid consuming bandwidth with null information. I think
the answer is a change to PGP to remove trailing blanks anytime
-t is active. I have written to Branko to suggest this, but his
response was somewhat lukewarm. Perhaps he would change his mind
if he received the same suggestion from several individual PGP users.
--
edgar at spectrx.saigon.com (Edgar W. Swank)
SPECTROX SYSTEMS +1.408.252.1005 Silicon Valley, Ca
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