Email authentication??

[Werner Koch]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Erik Rossen wrote:

> I wonder if the next RFC for PGP will add a protocol that only counts
> printable characters and IGNORES ALL WHITESPACE characters for the purpose
> of calculating checksums.  I bet that it would alleviate (or mask?) a lot

You cant do this as it changes the semantics of a message:
       A       B     C
    ====   =====  ====
    3000   20000
      50           700
            4000   100

would be the same as

       A       B     C
    ====   =====  ====   
    3000   20000
      50     700
    4000          1000

I guess you don't want this.  Stripping trailing white spaces does not
do chnages like this.      

> of problems with mail programs that try to "pretty-up" messages, do
> CR-CRLF conversions, etc...

It is all well defined in OpenPGP, but PGP 2 and 5 did different
things.


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