On 28 Dec 2005, at 4:59 AM, Ian G wrote:
Suggested change from this (1st para, chapter 7):
It is desirable to sign a textual octet stream without ASCII
armoring the stream itself, so the signed text is still readable
without special software. In order to bind a signature to such a
cleartext, this framework is used. (Note that RFC 3156 defines
another way to sign cleartext messages for environments that
support
MIME.)
To this (changes are in the parenthesized Note):
It is desirable to sign a textual octet stream without ASCII
armoring the stream itself, so the signed text is still readable
without special software. In order to bind a signature to such a
cleartext, this framework is used. (Note that this binding is not
intended to be reversible. RFC 3156 defines another way to sign
cleartext messages for environments that support MIME.)
Changes are in the parenthesized Note and amount to the insertion
of the following CAPS:
Note that THIS BINDING IS NOT INTENDED TO BE REVERSIBLE. RFC ...
I added that in, too.
Jon