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bis05: Armor Headers

2002-04-30 09:11:18

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Hi!

I've looked through bis05 and I think the wording on non-US-ASCII characters 
in armor headers is still too vague.

1. It's not only the Comment field that is affected here. IIRC, GnuPG uses 
non-us-ascii characters for the version header if localized, too.
2. An implementation allowing full UTF-8 in the Armor Headers indirectly 
violates rfc3156.

I'd really like to see that Armor Headers MUST (at least SHOULD) be 
constrained to US-ASCII, except in clearsigning, where the full UTF-8 may be 
used since the enclosed text is already UTF-8.

The other way round: If exporting keys with armor or creating an armored 
detached signature, all armor headers MUST be constrained to US-ASCII.

AFAISI, this should suffice for the rfc3156 cases.

Marc

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Marc Mutz <mutz(_at_)kde(_dot_)org>
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