Why are there additional dashes?

[Th. Fischer]

 > These is the usual PGP dashed escaped text.  This is needed to escape
 > the message headers;  imagine what would happen if you sign an already
 > signed message.  Good mail clients do remove them, others should
 > process the mail through gpg.

Hm. That's section 7.1 of RFC 2440. Next time, it's RTFM for me.

BTW, thank you for the answer ;)


Thorsten

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