Hi Steve Lamb,
On Donnerstag, 14. Oktober 1999 at 18:50:55 you wrote:
SL> Thursday, October 14, 1999, 8:56:25 AM, Claudius wrote:
>> (a) "Version: PGP 6.0.2i" (see below)
>> (b) adds "- " above "With best..." (see below)
>> (c) destroys quoted block (see above)
>> (d) "Hash: SHA1" (see above)
>> Why (a),(b),(c) and what does (d) mean?
>> Auto-check-signature doesn't work here with 6.5.1 (or maybe TB!
>> thinks there's a 6.0.2i installed, which _was_ installed but I made a
>> complete uninstall).
SL> A: No clue.
SL> B: Since PGP uses dashes in its beginning and ending block sequence it
SL> escapes all lines beginning with a dash inside the block it is
SL> signing with "- ".
SL> C: No clue.
SL> D: This tells PGP which hashing algorithm was used.
The first three lines are what the authors of PGP think just NEEDS to
be in that header ;) Using the PGP SDK to write your own application
using PGP technology for encoding, one can put his own strings in
there.
Oliver Sturm
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