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


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