Thomas Roessler <roessler(_at_)does-not-exist(_dot_)org> writes:
It should also be noted it's impossible to convert a
multipart/signed entity which contains 8bit body parts to any 7bit
format without breaking the signature. (Remember that MIME
explicitly forbids nested MIME encodings: Recoding has to happen on
the leaf level of a nested MIME structure.)
Since I know very little about this signing business, I'll have to
ask some really stupid questions.
What is in multipart/signed? Is it just the signature? Or is it any part
of the message that a human is supposed to read?
If it's only the signature, I don't have any issue with it. If it is text
intended to be read by humans, is the problem both trailing white-space
and octets >= 128? If only trailing white-space is the problem, wouldn't
be better to define an encoding that took care of those and nothing else?
What I care about in the end is that text which is supposed to be read
by humans are not mutilated.
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Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, sommar(_at_)algonet(_dot_)se