On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:18:50PM -0700, Andrew Pimlott wrote: > PS. I was off-line when I filed this, but now I notice that this has > been discussed. One message [1] suggests that this is a spec violation > by gnupg. > > Andrew > > [1] http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg12809.html
He is incorrect. The spec explicitly states that clear signatures are not reversible. If some implementation makes them reversible, that's great, but the spec says: 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 framework is not intended to be reversible. RFC 3156 defines another way to sign cleartext messages for environments that support MIME.) David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]