Email authentication??

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Sun, 23 Jan 2000 15:44:13 +0100


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. -- Werner Koch at guug.de www.gnupg.org keyid 621CC013 Boycott Amazon! - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html