importing keys with escaped "="

James H. Cloos Jr. cloos at jhcloos.com
Tue Jan 12 13:32:12 CET 1999


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The use of `=3D' in place of a `=' is characteristic of MIME's
quoted-printable transfer encoding.

In short, the ascii-armoured key was mangled by the sender's MUA, but
not de-mangled by yours.

Since pgp to have accepted it, pgp must have code to recognize
ascii-armour which has been converted to quoted-printable and
to decode it on input.  Adding such code to gpg ought to be
trivial.  But, since I'm stuck here behind the ITAR-curtain [1]
I won't include a patch herein.

- -JimC

[1]  Yes, I know it isn't ITAR anymore, but ITAR-curtain sounds better :)

- --
James H. Cloos, Jr.  <http://www.jhcloos.com/cloos/public_key> 1024D/ED7DAEA6
<cloos at jhcloos.com>     E9E9 F828 61A4 6EA9 0F2B  63E7 997A 9F17 ED7D AEA6

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=xTf2
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