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Re: armour pierced with PGP 8 arrow

2003-12-09 23:47:14

Ian Grigg <iang(_at_)systemics(_dot_)com> writes:

It appears that PGP 8 is breaking the spirit and intent of the ascii
armouring format, if not the "letter of the law."

What it is doing is in essence putting in a Version that is too long for some
mailers' line slicing paramaters. The result is that people receive this:

Version: PGP 8.0.2 - not licensed for commercial use:
www.pgp.com

Is it really a line-length issue, or something else like the presence of the
second colon in the line for something that's scanning for <string>:<string>?
For a mailer to be unable to handle a 66-char line sounds pretty... broken.

Peter.