commit 8ebdf2e99f93628055c7d7a89327191cf4d161dc Author: Isis Lovecruft isis@torproject.org Date: Tue Aug 1 17:15:21 2017 +0000

dir-spec: Specify linewrapping behaviour for base64-encoded data.

* THANKS TO Mr. George Costanza for pointing out the ambiguity. --- dir-spec.txt | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dir-spec.txt b/dir-spec.txt index c3f9563..ec0b2ab 100644 --- a/dir-spec.txt +++ b/dir-spec.txt @@ -201,8 +201,12 @@ Objects. A KeywordLine begins with a Keyword, optionally followed by whitespace and more non-newline characters, and ends with a newline. A Keyword is a sequence of one or more characters in the set [A-Za-z0-9-]. - An Object is a block of encoded data in pseudo-Open-PGP-style - armor. (cf. RFC 2440) + An Object is a block of encoded data in pseudo-Privacy-Enhanced-Mail (PEM) + style format: that is, lines of encoded data MAY be wrapped by inserting + an ascii linefeed ("LF", also called newline, or "NL" here) character + (cf. RFC 4648 §3.1). When line wrapping, implementations MUST wrap lines + at 64 characters. Upon decoding, implementations MUST ignore and discard + all linefeed characters.

More formally: