Can't check pgp-6.5.8 signatura

[Andrew McDonald]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 02:26:51PM -0400, mike ledoux wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Andrew McDonald wrote:
> >I don't think OpenPGP itself specifies the way to send an OpenPGP
> >format message within a mail. (or does someone want to correct me on
> >this?)
> 
> Sure it does, at least for cleartext signatures.  RFC2440, section 7.

Hmm. Sort of.

It specifies a way to "sign textual octet stream with ASCII armoring".
Which is clearly applicable to e-mail environments. It doesn't tell me
what MIME content type I should use.

Actually looking a bit further, section 2.4 says "An application that
implements OpenPGP for messaging SHOULD implement OpenPGP-MIME."

> PGP/MIME is a big mistake.  If you send me a signed message in
> PGP/MIME format, it is nearly impossible for me to verify the
> signature, as my mailer (Pine) does not support this very new message
> format.

I don't think you can call it a 'very new message format'. It has,
after all, been around for five years now. RFC 2015 is dated October
1996.

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Andrew McDonald
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