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Re: Whitespace: What should a signature sign?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Thu Dec 18 19:46:50 1997
In-Reply-To: <199712180523.VAA23063@proxy3.ba.best.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 09:36:24 -0800
To: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>, cryptography@c2.net
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
At 9:23 PM -0800 12/17/97, James A. Donald wrote:
> --
>At present Crypto Kong simply signs the exact form of the
>document.
>
>...
>
>Matthew Cromer argues that all white space should be treated
>merely as white space. I am not happy about this. Varying
>whitespace can change the apparent meaning of the document.
I think it might be advantageous to have two signatures, one with canonical
white space/new lines and the other just as the document is received. Then
it is up to the receiver to figure out what a partial verification means.
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