ASCII Armored example from rfc2440bis-12

[Peter Jones]

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On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 02:24 am, Plan9 wrote:
> If I edit the example and place a blank line after the Version: line
> then pgp will also decrypt it.  PGP 8.1 has no problems with either
> form.
>
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> Version: OpenPrivacy 0.99
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> yDgBO22WxBHv7O8X7O/jygAEzol56iUKiXmV+XmpCtmpqQUKiQrFqclFqUDBovzS
> vBSFjNSiVHsuAA==
> =njUN
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As I understand it -- and I'm no expert -- the blank line is required to 
separate the header from the encrypted body.  As well as version 
information, the header may also contain one (or more) comment line(s); 
without the blank line, the software has no way of knowing where the 
header ends and the body begins -- although it appears that PGP 8.1 is 
prepared to make an educated quess...

Pete.
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=B19H
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