Re: armour pierced with PGP 8 arrow

[pgut001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter Gutmann)]

Ian Grigg <iang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>It appears that PGP 8 is breaking the spirit and intent of the ascii
>armouring format, if not the "letter of the law."
>
>What it is doing is in essence putting in a Version that is too long for some
>mailers' line slicing paramaters. The result is that people receive this:
>
>Version: PGP 8.0.2 - not licensed for commercial use:
>www.pgp.com

Is it really a line-length issue, or something else like the presence of the
second colon in the line for something that's scanning for <string>:<string>?
For a mailer to be unable to handle a 66-char line sounds pretty... broken.

Peter.