[PATCH v5 2/4] util/repair: identify and repair "Mixed Up" mangled messages

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Sun 2019-09-15 23:26:59 +0300, Tomi Ollila wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 15 2019, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>
>> This patch implements a functional identification and repair process
>
> If there is going to be more versions, then the above could be changed
> to either 
>
> 1) This commit implements...
>
> or just
>
> 2) Implement a functional ...
>
>> for "Mixed Up" MIME messages as described in
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-dkg-openpgp-pgpmime-message-mangling-00#section-4.1
>>
>> The detection test is not entirely complete, in that it does not
>> verify the contents of the latter two message subparts, but this is
>> probably safe to skip, because those two parts are unlikely to be
>> readable anyway, and the only part we are effectively omitting (the
>> first subpart) is guaranteed to be empty anyway, so its removal can be
>> reversed if you want to do so.  I've left FIXMEs in the code so that
>> anyone excited about adding these additional checks can see where to
>> put them in.
>>
>> I'll use this functionality in the next two patches.
>
> If there is going to be more versions, then the above line could be removed...
>
> (as committed changes are not "patches" ...)

I concur with (and appreciate) your terminological pedantry.  the
revision on my gitlab branch has adopted your suggestions, but i don't
want to burden the list with another revision right now.  hopefully this
change to the commit message won't block adoption -- anyone merging the
series should feel free to adjust the commit message as Tomi recommends.

     --dkg
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