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Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

  > Many mail and news systems will append whitespace to messages.  Some strip
  > whitespace.  To compensate, following the lead set by the PEM format
  > standard, PGP marks signed areas with delimiters.  Thus, if a message has
  > whitespace appended or removed, it will not affect the signed area.
  > 
  > X-Pgp removes those delimiters.

IMHO, X-Pgp could be improved by specifying that trailing whitespace
should be removed before signing or verifying the signature.  This is
a kludge, but it might work, might it not?

kai
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