[fwd] Re: PGP/MIME implementors: text mode vs. binary mode? (from: hal@finney.org)

[JP Sugarbroad]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 10:11:56AM +0100, Werner Koch wrote:
> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 15:59:37 -0800
> From: hal at finney.org
> To: roessler at does-not-exist.org, warlord at mit.edu
> Cc: hal at finney.org, ietf-openpgp at imc.org
> Subject: Re: PGP/MIME implementors: text mode vs. binary mode?
> 
> Isn't the real, operational issue here a question of whether trailing
> white space should be hashed?  The choices are to say yes, or no, or it
> depends on the type byte in the signature.
> 
> I can't help thinking that the distinction between text and binary mode
> is not that useful in solving this problem.  Let's not get hung up on
> the specification incompatibility between PGP 2.X and OpenPGP.

Bah. PGP/MIME is a broken standard anyway. Signing post-CTE data is
simply ASKING for problems.

-- 
Taral <taral at taral.net>
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