Werner,
From: Werner Koch <wk(_at_)gnupg(_dot_)org>
Subject: Re: Finalizing OpenPGP/MIME?
What they should do is to parse the beginning of the message. Well,
okay than it is not anymore simple to implemnt it, becuase you need
a base64 decoder and some OpenPGP packet parsing code.
I know it is easy for you to implement a PGP parser. :-) Also, it is
not so difficult for me to do it. ;-)
Actually, I implemented a parser called "pgpdump".
ftp://pgp.iijlab.net/pub/tools/
# gpg --list-packet was not enough for me to visualize PGP packets.
Nonetheless, it is not so easy for many PGP/MIME programmers to embed
such PGP parser functionality to their MIME UAs.
For PGP I would just ignore that parameter; don't know about S/MIME.
This is a point. This means that the micalg parameter is meaningless.
I wonder why we should make an effort to set a correct value to such a
meaningless value?
Or if you are suggesting just to set a bogus value to the micalg
parameter because it is meaningless, why don't you support the idea of
wildcard value?
P.S.
The micalg parameter and the protocol parameter bites me always.
--Kazu