Combining comments from today, this is an updated proposal. 7.1
should be unchanged.
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7.1. Dash-Escaped Text
The cleartext content of the message must also be dash-escaped.
Dash escaped cleartext is the ordinary cleartext where every line
starting with a dash '-' (0x2D) is prefixed by the sequence dash '-'
(0x2D) and space ' ' (0x20). This prevents the parser from
recognizing armor headers of the cleartext itself. An implementation
MAY dash escape any line, SHOULD dash escape lines commencing
"From " (note the space), and MUST dash escape any line commencing
in a dash. The message digest is computed using the cleartext
itself, not the dash escaped form.
When reversing dash-escaping, an implementation MUST strip the
string "- " if it occurs at the beginning of a line, and SHOULD warn
on "-" and any character other than a space at the beginning of a
line.
7.2. Canonical Line Endings
As with binary signatures on text documents, a cleartext signature
is calculated on the text using canonical <CR><LF> line endings.
The line ending (i.e. the <CR><LF>) before the '-----BEGIN PGP
SIGNATURE-----' line that terminates the signed text is not
considered part of the signed text. See 6.2.
When calculating a cleartext signature, trailing whitespace
at the end of the line shall be removed (and replaced by the
sequence <CR><LF> as above). This protects against a failure
of a valid signature due to conversions that may occur in text
editing or in transport.
Whitespace for cleartext signature end-trimming is defined to
be the characters <SPACE> (0x20), <TAB> (0x09), <CR> (0x0D)
and <LF> (0x0A). No Unicode whitespace is defined.
End-trimming whitespace may open a cleartext signed message to an
attack of overstriking of key parts of text. Display of cleartext
signed messages should take care to strip whitespace before display
(both before and after signing and verification).
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