From: edgar@spectrx.Saigon.COM (Edgar W. Swank)
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 14:58:45 PST
To: Cypherpunks          <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: Trailing blanks in signed plaintext
Message-ID: <sZT4wB6w165w@spectrx.saigon.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

Distribution:
   Cypherpunks          <cypherpunks@toad.com>
   Branko Lankester     <lankeste@fwi.uva.nl>

I noticed something about PGP signed plaintext the last time
used that feature to send a message to Cypherpunks.

Apparently PGP takes any line beginning with 5 dashes ("-----")
and adds "- " (dash blank) to it. I guess the purpose for this
is to avoid confusion if the plaintext message should contain
a PGP delimiter like

   -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----

But in my particular case, what I specified in my input plaintext was

   -----END OF MESSAGE BODY-----

(but with no indentation), but what came out was

   - -----END OF MESSAGE BODY-----

Given that PGP is going to make changes like this to signed plaintext,
I suggest there is no longer any reason to object if PGP also removes
trailing blanks from signed plaintext.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: 2.1

iQCVAgUBK02ta94nNf3ah8DHAQFX8wP/dyusrml+2XH7XQtFcsQveGW3Zz3ib6K9
xGGV2hnvhwIHbFs4HIKTIVT0BFR6Y4SuqFMeF0BS16FIu47GmW8Q55iIhweDP7x5
+CUMXSynwQsz4XOMU/CpqNAwJifNoM9BwNu+RqfhIxwi6KxO1i3FwJjxPzE+uHkh
Y7Mjl7Ytkd0=
=0l/6
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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