| gabriel rosenkoetter on Wed, 24 Apr 2002 15:03:08 -0400 |
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On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 02:48:46PM -0400, ian reinhart geiser wrote: > AFIK mutt is the only mailer that attaches the gpg sig as an attachment. Not entirely true, but they're aren't many MUAs that use PGP/MIME. (Yet.) > KMail also wraps the entire message in the GPG signature. Which is fine. But it ignores RFCs (2015 and 2440) about how PGP messages can be sent in such a way that MUAs can safely notice they exist automatically. (You wouldn't want your MUA trying to parse every message for PGP data because it'd lead to the same kind of insecurities that scripting Outlook does.) Just means that Pine can't do it automatically. > I think this came up before and it was decided that mutt was using an older > implementation while KMail and Pine where using the new standard. That's flat-out wrong. RFC 2015 really is the right way to put PGP in mail messages. The fact that pine (STILL!) can't deal with multi-part MIME messages is (imho) just yet another reason to kick it to the curb. See: http://www.washington.edu/pine/pine-info/2000.07/msg00120.html The "newer" standard you're thinking of might be S/MIME, but that uses SSL (and requires a certificate authority) as opposed PGP. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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