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PMCANON(1) General Commands Manual PMCANON(1) NAME pmcanon - put a news article in canonical format for signature checking SYNOPSIS pmcanon[file] DESCRIPTION Pmcanon accepts an article from the named file (or standard input if not specified), selects certain of the header fields, and performs certain transformations intended to defeat unintentional mangling by news transport programs. The resulting article is written to standard output, and is suit- able to have a PGP signature generated or checked for it. The output produced consists (in order) of a sorted list, one per line, of newsgroups; the From:, Subject:, and Message-ID: lines, and the body of the article (everything after the first empty line). Other header lines are discarded. The body is further processed by deleting all blank lines, deleting trail- ing whitespace on lines, prefixing lines beginning with "--", "From", "Sub- ject", and a single "." with "- ", ">", ">" and ".", respectively. These modifications are safe, in that an article which has already had such modi- fications will fail to meet the criterion to have them happen again. Thus what was used as input when a signature was generated should still be the same when checked for validity, even if some of these changes have happened along the delivery path. SEE ALSO pmapp(1), pmcheck(1), PGP manual. AUTHOR Greg Rose, RoSecure Software. PGP Moose PMCANON(1)
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