-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160
Exactly, Bryan.
And I still maintain that it is significantly more bother to the list to have the same thread repeatedly quoted with an ever- increasing amount of >'s than the 5-8 added lines of PGP code–but that's just my own opinion.
Avi
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 12:14 PM, wikien-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:01:47 -0600 Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----?
PGP needs that line at the top to indicate where the verified text begins. If PGP doesn't check exactly the same chunk of text that was signed it'll fail to verify, sort of like how earlier in this thread someone was complaining about a mail client that had added a single space to an encrypted block of text which resulted in the whole message being broken.