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Re: pgp signing question



On Sat, Jan 17, 1998 at 01:33:45AM -0700, G John Lapeyre wrote:

> 	pgp -sa file_to_sign, and then it writes a file, file_to_sign.asc
> . This file has a "BEGIN PGP MESSAGE" line and a bunch of characters and
> an ending line.  On other signed documents, I have seen  the original text
> inserted in here, but pgp does not do this.  Can I insert it by hand ? I
> spent a few hours last summer reading docs on pgp, and never saw this
> question addressed.

That depends on what you sign. If pgp encounters some non-ascii-chars, it
assumes the file to be a binary and therefor "armors" it with a base64
encoding. You may also have look at /etc/pgp-i.conf:

set charset=noconv
set TextMode=On

regards
	Sascha

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