Re: dash escaped text and cleartext sig. q

[Tom Zerucha <tz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 03:45:52PM +0800, Erron Criddle wrote:
> Tom,
> 
> At 11:27 AM 20/07/2000 -0400, Tom Zerucha <tz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >My opgp will insert the extra dashes on any line beginning with a dash
> >(and hash the thus escaped text).

OOPS! I was wrong...

> I have just read 7.1, paragraph 2 and it states "...The message digest is 
> computed using the cleartext itself, not the dash escaped form."

I should have looked at my code more carefully.  I insert a
dash/space, but I call my text line canonicalizer which strips it.

> You say "(and hash the thus escaped text)", however they say different...
> 
> What way is the right way - to hash the dash escaped text or not?


> Also, does the receiver of a dash-escaped email receive text as "- 
> ---------" or "---------"?

Good question..

I think they are supposed to receive:

- ------------

But my implementation doesn't do this, though it probably should