Richard Salz <[email protected]> wrote:
> is the leading whitespace ignored?

Section 7.2 of the draft says: "Normalize the string by removing all
whitespace characters from input."
So, Yes, whitespace is ignored. Simple!

Note: Magic Signature discussions should be on:
http://groups.google.com/group/salmon-protocol

bob wyman

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Richard Salz <[email protected]> wrote:

> > See the draft for details:
>
> http://salmon-protocol.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/draft-panzer-magicsig-00.html
>
> Interesting.  The term "magic" is a little to cutesy for me, but maybe I'm
> just getting old.
>
> The draft, and the RFC on base64 it references, aren't specific enough
> about whitespace.  Maybe I read too quickly, but the sample shows indented
> lines -- is the leading whitespace ignored?  Embedded whitespace?  Where
> odes it say that?
>
> I'd propose something similar:  all whitespace is ignored when generating
> the digest.  Then even more issues vanish.
>
>        /r$
>
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