Re: [pe-users] PGPEnvelope not using -t when encrypting?

[L. S. <ra...@qu...>]

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On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Frank Tobin wrote:

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> L. Sassaman, at 03:25 -0700 on Sun, 30 Apr 2000, wrote:
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> > Don't bother. I have fixed it (was a problem in GnuPG::Interface), and
> > attached the patch and sig.
> 
> First, it's not good to change GnuPG::Interface so that it doesn't
> directly conform to GnuPG, unless it is fixing to to by by the OpenPGP
> spec, the goal of GnuPG.  GnuPG::Interface is meant to be a strict,
> hardcore, no flirts layer over GnuPG, no compatibility issues discussed.
> Pathches for compatibility should be put into the products that use it.
> BTW, if you were to patch GnuPG, the cleanest way to do so would have been
> to edit the default for textmode in GnuPG::Options, but thanks for trying
> :)

Well, I would think that you would want to be able to call text or binary
modes from GnuPG::Interface. It just seems to make more sense to put it in
there...
 
> Next, I'm not entirely sure that the --textmode option should be passed
> for pgpenvelope.  If zip a text file, and then send it to a windows
> machine, and then unzip it, no carriage returns 'magically appear'.  So I
> don't know how I should approach the issue; preferabbly I'd like to know
> what 'should' be happening specwise.  When specificallly are you having
> problems with an absense carriage returns?

It is necessary for OpenPGP. 

Check 7.1 in the current draft. If you don't give it the --textmode
option, it does not know that this is a canonical text document, and
treats it as a binary doc.

I think that 5.2.1 discusses this as well.
 

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L. Sassaman

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