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<3(_dot_)0(_dot_)5(_dot_)32(_dot_)19980123002125(_dot_)0085c470(_at_)popd(_dot_)ix(_dot_)netcom(_dot_)com>,
on 01/23/98
at 03:21 AM, Bill Stewart <bill(_dot_)stewart(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com> said:
At 02:46 PM 1/23/98 +0900, Hiroyuki Yamada wrote:
I have a question about PGP signed data in section 5-(1)(2)(3)
of rfc2015. It requires <CR><LF> for end of each lines instead
of <NL>. Could anybody have any reason for it ?
Different operating systems have different conventions for
representing the end of a line. Unix uses <LF> ( = <NL> ).
MS-DOS uses <CR><LF> as do some other systems. I think
Macintoshes may use <CR>. So if you want to sign a document on one
system and verify the signature on the other,
you have to know which convention is being used,
or hope that the your operating system, the signer's operating system, or
some glue in between did not change the newline.
If you always sign the same version, this doesn't happen,
and <CR><LF> probably will not do Bad Things on most systems.
Isn't <CR><LF> pretty much the standard in the RFC's ? IIRC RFC733 onward
all specify <CR><LF>. Since RFC733 and for the most part RFC822 pre-date
the PC revolution I would imagine that this was the standard convention
for the machines being used by ARPANET at the time (I was still using an
IBM1130 then and I don't remember what it used).
Perhaps a Net historian could step in and clarify the matter.
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