file extension confusion: --clearsign makes binary .asc

[Werner Koch]

On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 18:32, hans at guardianproject.info said:

> base64-encoded binary data?  If so, I think that running "gpg --clearsign" on
> a binary file should give a warning that its not a supported format.

The question is what is a binary file?  It is hard for a machine to
figure that out and Unix tradition does not distinguish between binary
and plain text (in contrast to Windows).

> gpg 1.4.11 and gpg2 2.0.17.  In both cases, the resulting file was not ASCII,
> but the format I described: binary data and ASCII signature.  I attached the

Sure.  If you don't want that you need to base64 encode the to be signed
data first.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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