Andreas Stieger changed bug 1092270
What Removed Added
Status NEW RESOLVED
CC   astieger@suse.com
Resolution --- INVALID
Assignee bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com astieger@suse.com

Comment # 1 on bug 1092270 from
The data is not formatted correctly.

>From the HTML code:

> <p style="font-family: Courier New; font-size:10">
>             -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----<br />
> 
>             mQ[...]<br />

>From the text rendering:

> -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
> mQ[...]

>From https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1991#section-2.4.1

> 2.4.1 ASCII Armor Formats
> 
>    When PGP encodes data into ASCII Armor, it puts specific headers
>    around the data, so PGP can reconstruct the data at a future time.
>    PGP tries to inform the user what kind of data is encoded in the
>    ASCII armor through the use of the headers.
> 
>    ASCII Armor is created by concatenating the following data:
> 
>         - An Armor Headerline, appropriate for the type of data
>         - Armor Headers
>         - A blank line
>         - The ASCII-Armored data
> [...]

So clearly the online version of the key is rendered in such a way that the
blank line is missing. The first line is then interpreted as a header, which
results in this expected message.


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