Re: Bad Armour Headers

[David Shaw <dshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:28:20PM +0000, Ben Laurie wrote:
> 
> draft 15 says:
> 
> "    The format of an Armor Header is that of a key-value pair.  A colon
>     (':' 0x38) and a single space (0x20) separate the key and value.
>     OpenPGP should consider improperly formatted Armor Headers to be
>     corruption of the ASCII Armor. "
> 
> However, I see improperly formatted headers because of word wrapping.
> There doesn't appear to be a way to wrap a long line, so I must reject
> these as badly formatted (not that other implementations do, it seems).

GPG rejects these as well.  Word wrapping mangles clearsigned
documents as well, of course, so it's more than just an armor header
problem.

I'm not sure what can be done about that except to tell people "don't
corrupt the armor, please".

David