dash escaping

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Lars Hecking wrote:

>  And I'm still waiting for any comment to the related "gpg 1.0.2 error:
>  unexpected armor" message I sent here last week.

Sorry, probably I accidently hit the d and not the F key in mutt ;-)

So here is the problem again:

gpg: unexpected armor:-------------------------------------------------------------\n
gpg: invalid radix64 character 2e skipped
[170 more lines]
gpg: invalid radix64 character 3e skipped
gpg: invalid radix64 character 5f skipped
gpg: CRC error; 04a824 - 244451
gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=4e) near 141
     
 The problem seems to be that the message (signed with pgp 2.6.3ia) contains
 a line

-------------------------------------------------------------

 starting in the first column, and gpg seems to treat this line like one of

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

 
No it treats it like like an invalid armor line ;-)  The message is not
valid.  A valid encoding of a straight dashline would look like this:

- --------------------------------------------------------------

Notice the "- " at the start of the line.  This is the dash escaping
as always used by PGP.  

  Werner


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