Re: cleartext signatures - trailing white space - proposal

[Werner Koch <wk@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:23:44 -0800, Hal Finney said:

> After signing this message, I've added a CR and 5 spaces to the above
> line, which will obscure the word DON'T on some systems.  The signature
> will still verify if we strip CR with the whitespace, but a superficial
> look at the message may produce the wrong impression.

Right.  So better forget about cleartext and only use binary
signatures; then another application is reponsible to take care of
such things ;-)

  Werner