problem signing public key, ----- gets converted to - -----

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Tue May 29 16:44:54 CEST 2012


On Tue, 29 May 2012 15:15, anotst01 at fastmail.fm said:
> I want to post a public key in a blog and sign the blog entry. The
> problem is, that ----- gets converted to - -----. The reader can't copy
> and paste the public key, he has to remove the "- " first.

If you process the signature with GPG, it will remove that escape
sequence (gpg --output foo.txt --verify foo.sig).  Mail readers usually
do this for you.

Note, that signing a public key blog does not make much sense.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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