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Re: WGLC for draft-ietf-openpgp-openpgp-15 ends Oct 28 1700EDT // empty line

2005-10-14 22:33:19

On 14 Oct 2005, at 6:17 AM, <vedaal(_at_)hush(_dot_)com> 
<vedaal(_at_)hush(_dot_)com> wrote:

it's not the pgp implementations,

but it does happen 'always'
when generating a pdf that has a pgp message as an illustration

the pdf treats the empty line as 'whitespace'
rather than a 'line return'

and the pgp program trying to decrypt/verify the pdf example
is dealing with a functional omission of the empty line

this is true both in Adobe Writer (all versions through 6, anyway)
and PDFCreator

not a reason to change the standard,
just something to be aware of

a simple workaround when creating pdf's, is to manually add a colon
on the 'empty line' of the pgp message

this will render in pdf, and will be recognizable by all the pgp
implementations

Okay, so you have described a great reason why an implementation might want to accept such a data block despite it not being up to spec. It's a great reason.

But that's not a reason to change the spec.

    Jon

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