Re: Cleartext Signatures

[<vedaal@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 03:43:05 -0700 Ben Laurie <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
>Section 7 says that the last bit of a cleartext signature is:
>
>"The ASCII armored signature(s) including the '-----BEGIN PGP 
>SIGNATURE-----' Armor Header and Armor Tail Lines."
>
>This is ambiguous, since in previous sections "Armor Header" has 
>referred to name/value pairs, of which there could be none or more 

>than 
>one, and not the "-----blah-----" line, which is called the "Armor 

>
>Header Line".
>
>Since I have seen signature both with and without headers (i.e. 
>some 
>with no headers do not have a blank line between the header line 
>and the 
>armoured text), I'd like to know what is actually correct here!
>
>Cheers,

also,
could there be a consensus on the maximum length of 
a comment or version line,

long version lines (example the freeware pgp editions)
wrap in gnupg,
and there is an error message of invalid armor heador,
and further attempts at decryption/verification are stopped

would suggest 64 characters, to keep it the same as the rest of the 
pgp armor

vedaa



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