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Thomas J. Boschloo

2007-09-21, 1:14 pm

Anonymous schreef:
> Doctor Who wrote:
>
>
> On the odd chance that you guys are trying to test something here,
> encrypted messages are armored (RADIX-64 encoded) which changes
> everything. Armored and MIME/Multipart are likely to verify when
> normal text messages will not.


No. Just wanted to tell Doctor Who something in private without a
certain group member starting a whole flamewar over it.

Since posting I have learned that UTF-8 actually isn't an 8 bit
character set like ISO-8859-1 and quite a nightmare for an application
as PGP. You see: It really doesn't matter which character mapping you
use when clearsigning because character 0xe4 will map back to 0xe4 no
matter how you display it. UTF-8 is sometimes two bytes however, or even
more, which is likely to be a problem for RFC 1991 versions of PGP.

Thomas
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