From owner-db-wg@ripe.net Mon Mar 25 14:29:46 2002 From: Engin Gunduz <engin@ripe.net>

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Let's suppose I send in a message with password: Hello (note the three spaces).

It is not clear to me where the passphrase would start. I can think of two valid approaches: 1. At the first character after the first white space (space or tab) following the colon (":") (in my example the passphrase would be then " Hello"). 2. At the first non-whitespace character after the colon (in which case the passphrase would be "Hello").

I think I would vote for the second approach which is more intuitive to me. BTW: how does this work with CRYPT-PW? I would think it is the second approach.

Yes, the current approach is the second one. This implicitely prohibits the use of white space as the first characters of the password but probably this is less confusing for the users then having the behaviour you defined in 1.

I don't think this is documented. We'll make sure it will be in the user manual, and in reference document if necessary.

Great! Thanks. Best regards, Janos