On 8608 day of my life Jesper Harder wrote:
> Currently Gnus violates this requirement in RFC 3156 (MIME Security
> with OpenPGP):
>
>    implementations MUST make sure that no trailing whitespace is
>    present after the MIME encoding has been applied.

Note: RFC 3156 describes PGP/MIME only.

> Fixing it the obvious way would, however, break the intention of this
> change:
>
> 2003-10-27  Simon Josefsson  <jas@extundo.com>
>
> 	* mm-bodies.el (mm-body-encoding): Don't use QP when message body
> 	only consists of short lines and ASCII, when
> 	mm-use-ultra-safe-encoding.  Refer to 'About foo' thread in
> 	gnus-bug, e.g. <ilullrg4k7p.fsf@extundo.com>, for more discussion.
> 	This make it possible to pipe the raw RFC 822 message into 'gpg'
> 	and have the signature work.

It's true only for Plain PGP.  PGP/MIME uses detached signatures, that
cannot be verified with piping.

My opinion is that whitespaces must be removed from PGP/MIME-encoded
messages but not from Plain PGP-encoded ones.   But it is current
state of Gnus, isn't it?

BTW, is gnus-bug archived somewhere?

-- 
Ivan Boldyrev

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