2000-06-30-15:57:06 Shawn McMahon:
2000-06-30-15:40:46 L. Sassaman:
Ever heard of PGP/MIME? Look at RFC 2015.
To be fair, even you aren't using it. :-)
Yup. I abandoned it briefly myself. Seems that various versions of various MUAs under Windows go way, way out of their way to screw up PGP/MIME, making the normal body of the message look like some kind of unknown binary attachment, popping up warnings that it might have a virus, etc. --- the same programs that silently just run .SHS attachments that they present to the user as being simple text files. In an attempt to make life a little easier for people running that grade of software, I experimented for a bit with turning off the PGP/MIME stuff and having my mutt generate text/plain with clearsigned messages in the body. Then I got more severe complaints, people who'd been able to read my email before no longer could, it was arriving mushed into some kind of random binary crud. So I switched back to PGP/MIME. Seems to be the least awful of the alternatives available today, at least for people who are about email privacy or authentication. Of course for people who care primarily about enriching CAs, what you want is S/MIME:-). -Bennett