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Re: [openpgp] I-D Action: draft-ietf-openpgp-crypto-refresh-01.txt

2021-02-07 16:41:35
On Sun, 7 Feb 2021, Peter Gutmann wrote:

For spaces and tabs the intention is clear for me, however, I am not sure
about carriage returns in general. According to Unicode Character Database
there are some other whitespace characters, e.g., form feed (0x0c). Should
such characters be included, too?

That also just seems wrong in general, the last major OS type I know of that
used CR delimiters was Mac OS from 1984.  Shouldn't this be LF or CRLF?
Wherever this came from, it's not in 4880, or any other common RFC that
defines a format for blank lines.

Question for the WG. Should we change the text to make the entries
"examples" of white space, or should we add a definition of white space?

If the latter, what do the current openpgp implementations define as
white space characters right now?

Paul

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