Re: PGP/MIME implementors: text mode vs. binary mode?

[Thomas Roessler <roessler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2001-02-15 12:05:59 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:

>>> The signature block at the bottom of the PGP/MIME signed
>>> message has a signature type byte in it, text vs binary.  Is
>>> it your assumption that the value in this type byte should
>>> control the hashing of the textual data which is earlier in
>>> the message?

>> Yes, of course.

> And thus breaking one-pass-processing, one of the fundamental
> design goals of MIME? ;-)

Not really. ,-)

> You have to put this information into the micalg parameter, I
> think.

By mandating that the two hashes coincide on all allowed data, we
can circumvent this.

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Thomas Roessler			    <roessler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>