From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 09:16:18 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Lack of PGP signatures
Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960703220436.00e93fe8@mail.teleport.com>
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At 02:07 PM 7/3/96 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote:
>At 12:15 PM 7/3/96 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote:
>>On my Mac I just entered this answer, cut it to the clipboard, launched
>>PGP, clearsigned it, and pasted the result back into the Eudora window for
>>the new mail.
>
>But of course the signature doesn't check.  (I suspect Eudora line wrapping.)

Yep.  Been there, done that.

Line wrap problems are the bain of PGP sigs.  This is the reason that most
PGP shells will force a line wrap before generating the signature.  The only
way around it is to turn off all line wrapping or have a utility do it for
you before signing it.

I am wondering why there is not a signing option that ignores all
non-printing characters.  Might fix some of these problems...  (Can anyone
think of a reason this would be a "Bad Thing(tm)"?)

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