We are not bringing up this old ghost are we? Every PGP implementation
to date uses ASCII-Armor, it is there and everyone has the code for it.
Using anything other than Ascii-Armor for 8bit to 7bit conversion of
PGP packets only complicates the issue.
This is no old ghost, and needs to be settled. I am absolutley opposed to
using ASCII armour with MIME.
1. Every existing MIME implementation has base64 encoding code (which is
exactly the same as ASCII armour, minus the CRC
2. The MIME spec ban's nested encodings of MIME objects
3. Every PGP implementation to date may have ASCII Armour, but they should
also have a binary output option - certainly PGP itself does. This works
well with RFC 1847 & 2015 as the PGP binary object can be attached and
encoded with base64.
4. Using ASCII Armour would break most MIME implementations and *really*
annoy the MIME team.
--
Lindsay Mathieson
Black Paw Communications
Using MailCat for Win32 Beta Vs 2.8 Preview 2, on September 5, 1998, in
Win95 4.0
http://www.blackpaw.com/