The hidden fox

[William H. Geiger III]

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In <19980604072620.B7192 at isil.d.shuttle.de>, on 06/04/98 
   at 07:26 AM, Werner Koch <wk at isil.d.shuttle.de> said:

>Tomas Fasth <tomas.fasth at twinspot.net> writes:

>> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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>> Shouldn't there be a matching
>> -----END PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> at the end of the message???

>No an armored message ends with ----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>and has a -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE---- in it. 

>BTW: This armpred stuff is old fashioned, it's better to use MIME
>encoding.


I disagree,

There are still quite a few people out there that are *not* using MIME
based mailers. Also very few applications out there are capable of making
use of PGP/MIME formats.

*All* e-mail clients that support PGP can process clear-signed messages.

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