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Re: The Case Against MIME

1997-11-19 11:11:44
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William H. Geiger III writes:

There seems to be several members that are in favor of dropping Ascii
Armour, and MIME formatting all PGP messages. 

I would like to present the case that this is not necessary nor even
recommended!

The majority of PGP users are using 2.6.x and will be for a long time to
come. This is fact regardless of wether one likes it or not. Switching
formats for the sake of some MIME "purity" at the expense of compatibility
is a foolhardy gesture.

Absolutely. Plain old non-MIME ASCII-armored PGP is one of the most 
useful crypto tools out there, not to mention the sole basis of PGP
integration into most mail readers that support it.

Frankly, MIME sucks. PGP/MIME is needed for those (very) rare
occasions when one needs to encrypt MIME attachments, etc, but it 
is not useful in 90% of email. Making it the only way to send PGP
email is just plain dumb IMHO.

Regards,
Jeremey.
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Jeremey Barrett                                BlueMoney Software Corp.
Crypto, Ecash, Commerce Systems               http://www.bluemoney.com/
PGP key fingerprint =  3B 42 1E D4 4B 17 0D 80  DC 59 6F 59 04 C3 83 64

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