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[openpgp] PGP/MIME, RFC 3156, Require empty boundary preamble lines

2021-09-20 04:58:24
Hello,

is this list an appropriate place to discuss PGP/MIME topics?

Please see the following example message:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1690603#c16

There is one line marked with
"---> preamble line inside signed content".

Thunderbird 78 had added a non-empty preamble line, which was removed by a mail transport agent, causing the signature verification to fail.

Perhaps a future revision of RFC 3156 could state that preamble lines inside the signed payload MUST be empty - in the hope that no transport agent will add their own preamble lines.

(TB 91 contains a coincidental change that produces empty preamble lines, I haven't yet investigated what had caused this, but it likely has the side effect to fix the reported scenario.)

I don't know if there are any transport agents that ADD preamble lines - hopefully there aren't.

Regards
Kai

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