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Re: Let's resolve the end-of-line and whitespace question

2004-02-20 09:00:16
On Friday 20 February 2004 16.16, Ian Grigg wrote:
     b) UTF-8 whitespace may be stripped from the
        end of lines in signing, but in this case, the
        document should be transmitted in its clean
        interchange form, with these characters
        cleaned from the end of lines, so that the
        recipient can calculate (verify) correctly.

s/transmitted/signed/ perhaps?

Perhaps just state that the behaviour of OpenPGP implementations wrt non-ascii 
whitespace at EOL is undefined, thus signing such texts should be avoided (by 
removing/encoding such ws)?

cheers
-- vbi

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