Re: Outstanding question - rule on cleartext signing last line

[Ben Laurie <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

vedaal@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 13:32:13 -0800 "Daniel A. Nagy" 
> <nagydani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 05:03:59PM +0000, Ben Laurie wrote:
>>
>>> I have just tested GPG yet again, and cleartext signatures of 
>> two files,
>>> one without a newline at the end, and one with, look identical:
>>>
>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>> Hash: SHA1
>>>
>>> test
>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>>> Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD)
>> Yepp, that's a bug in GPG and it does not follow from the spec. My
>> implementation does not do that. In my opinion, the correct 
>> behavior would
>> be reversible.
>> The output of gpg --clearsign should be identical to that 
>> converted from the
>> output of gpg -ts.
> 
> i really can't see any bug in gnupg about this
> 
> gnupg clearsigns exactly what the user gives it
> 
> if the user gives it text with no empty line after it,
> then the signature block begins right after the text
> 
> if the user wants a blank line and includes the line return, 
> then gnupg signs after the empty line

Not the version I'm using, as I've already stated, and in any case, my
issue is with clarity in the I-D.

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