On 2000-05-12 16:46:10 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
Synchronizing OpenPGP-MIME with these developments is
not very complicated, but I think the benifit of having
a micalg parameter is even too small for that.
Please note that the draft text already solves this:
| The "micalg" parameter for the "application/pgp-signature"
| protocol MUST contain exactly one hash-symbol of the
| format "pgp-<hash- symbol>", where <hash-symbol>
| identifies the Message Integrity Check (MIC) algorithm
| used to generate the signature. Hash-symbols are
| constructed from the text names registered in [1] or
| according to the mechanism defined in that document by
| converting the text name to lower case and prefixing it
| with the four characters "pgp-".
Ian: I'll come back to the issue you raised later. I'll
have to check some things in 1847 for this.
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