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Re: PGP/MIME implementors: text mode vs. binary mode?

2001-02-15 04:14:13
Thomas Roessler <roessler(_at_)does-not-exist(_dot_)org> writes:

The signature block at the bottom of the PGP/MIME signed message
has a signature type byte in it, text vs binary.  Is it your
assumption that the value in this type byte should control the
hashing of the textual data which is earlier in the message?

Yes, of course.

And thus breaking one-pass-processing, one of the fundamental design
goals of MIME? ;-)

You have to put this information into the micalg parameter, I think.

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