Extra dashes when crearsigning a file?

[Werner Koch]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Johan Wevers wrote:

> When you clearsign a file which contains lines that start with a dash, an
> extra dash is introduced, why is that?

This is called dash-escaped text.  It is used to quote the -----PGP....
lines and to make the job of the parser easier.  It has always been
used by PGP.


  Werner 

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