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Re: PGP/MIME interop testing: Very first steps towards a test suite.

2000-03-31 02:36:16
On 2000-03-30 17:27:42 -0800, Jon Callas wrote:

What this is saying is that you have to use ASCII armor
in OpenPGP/MIME. It's not saying that you can't have a
binary mode signature. If you are using OpenPGP/MIME to
sign a zip file (for example), you do it in binary
mode, but you armor the output.

Not necessarily.  Since the zip file will be MIME-encoded
before signing, you can also use a text-mode signature for
this. ;-)

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