Converting ascii armored signature to cleartext

Laurent Jumet laurent.jumet at skynet.be
Sun Jun 24 13:33:13 CEST 2007


Hello Hardeep !

"Hardeep Singh" <hs2412 at gmail.com> wrote:

> If someone sends me an ASCII armoured file with some signed text, can
> I convert it into cleartext sign so that I can display it to people
> without GPG also?

    In my opinion, an armoured not-encrypted file is compressed with the algorithm defined by its creator:
Z0  Uncompressed
Z1  ZIP
Z2  ZLIB
Z3  BZIP2

    But I don't think it's easy to read it without GPG.

-- 
Laurent Jumet
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