On 2001-02-15 12:05:59 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
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? ;-)
Not really. ,-)
You have to put this information into the micalg parameter, I
think.
By mandating that the two hashes coincide on all allowed data, we
can circumvent this.
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Thomas Roessler <roessler(_at_)does-not-exist(_dot_)org>