--allow-multiple-messages in gpg 1.4.9

[Nicholas Cole]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:

>    * By default, do not allow processing multiple plaintexts in a
>      single stream.  Many programs that called GnuPG were assuming
>      that GnuPG did not permit this, and were thus not using the
>      plaintext boundary status tags that GnuPG provides.  This change
>      makes GnuPG reject such messages by default which makes those
>      programs safe again.  --allow-multiple-messages returns to the
>      old behavior. [CVE-2007-1263].
>
> I'll change the documentaion to make this more clear.

The issue I was reporting was that this option doesn't seem to do
anything at all, at least for armoured messages. I haven't done any
further testing.  Are you saying that this is a dummy option?

Best,

Nicholas