Formatting note: using code blocks for list works horribly on mobile.

The original document is preformatted monospace text, so a preformatted block is the only way to display it without a lot of effort to rejoin the lines and separate them into paragraph breaks (so that HN won't combine them inappropriately).

Fair enough, but if I simply copy and paste the above without indents it doesn't look so bad:

- Added the use of AuthEnvelopedData, including defining and registering an smime-type value (Sections 2.4.4 and 3.4).

- Updated the content-encryption algorithms (Sections 2.7 and 2.7.1.2): added AES-256 Galois/Counter Mode (GCM), added ChaCha20-Poly1305, removed mention of AES-192 Cipher Block Chaining (CBC), and marked tripleDES as historic.

- Updated the set of signature algorithms (Section 2.2): added the Edwards-curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA), added the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA), and marked DSA as historic.

- Updated the set of digest algorithms (Section 2.1): added SHA-512, and marked SHA-1 as historic.

- Updated the size of keys to be used for RSA encryption and RSA signing (Section 4).

- Created Appendix B, which discusses considerations for dealing with historic email messages.

Yes this is actually readable.

No need to rejoin the lines, as HN will combine them as you say. Only need to add a new line before each bullet point.

>a lot of effort

Just ':%s/\n\s//g' in vim... substitute (newline + non-ws char) with nothing.

This is what we get for tolerating hard wraps. Same issue with git commit messages.

and desktop!