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Re: expedience, consensus and editing

1997-11-29 00:07:08
Could you explain how the following detached signature would be
encoded using RFC1847/RFC2015?  Would you use multipart/signed or
multipart/encrypted?

multipart/signed, with no encoding for clear text. For opaque signing we
could either encode it with base64 or sign & encrypt.

An example:

     From: Hal Finney <hal(_at_)rain(_dot_)org>
     To: Lindsay Mathieson <lindsay(_at_)powerup(_dot_)com(_dot_)au>
     Mime-Version: 1.0
     Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=bar; micalg=pgp-md5;
     protocol="application/pgp-signature"

     --bar
     Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
     
     Lindsay Mathieson, <lindsay(_at_)powerup(_dot_)com(_dot_)au>, writes, 
quoting me:
     > > - There is no PGP/MIME encoding of a detached signature
     > >
     > > - There is no PGP/MIME encoding of a non-clear signed message
     >
     > ? Both points are clearly addressed (and doable) in RFC 1847 &
RFC2015, which
     > are PGP/MIME (aren't they ?)

     Could you explain how the following detached signature would be
     encoded using RFC1847/RFC2015?  Would you use multipart/signed or
     multipart/encrypted?

     --bar
     Content-Type: application/pgp-signature

     -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
     Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0

     iQA/AwUBNH5DH7qVexb8FGk/EQKTagCg9NwSygbmXdVts7NbIyPkaX9p65QAn2Lu
     DTwZos6GWUDnplXYbZXolxLY
     =hgt3
     -----END PGP MESSAGE-----

     --bar--


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Lindsay Mathieson
Black Paw Communications
        Using MailCat for Win32 Beta Vs 2.6.1.2, on November 29, 1997, in Win95 
4.0
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