Re: Lack of PGP signatures

["Mark M." <markm@voicenet.com>]

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On Wed, 3 Jul 1996, snow wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Jul 1996, Alan Olsen wrote:
> > I am wondering why there is not a signing option that ignores all
> > non-printing characters.  Might fix some of these problems...  (Can anyone
> > think of a reason this would be a "Bad Thing(tm)"?)
> 
>      IANACE, but off the top of my head I'd say clear signing binaries. 

It is not possible to clear-sign binaries with PGP.  The point of clear-signing
is to have signed text that is readable to people who don't have the software
necessary to process the text.  It would make sense to clearsign a file that
is base64'ed or uuencoded, which wouldn't alter the contents of the file.  I
can't see how such an option would be harmful, except that it might lose some
characters that are important to the context of the message.

- -- Mark

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