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Re: [urgent] PGP/MIME IANA considerations: file extensions, Macintosh file type codes.

2001-07-05 15:26:56

On 2001-07-05 15:06:41 -0700, John W Noerenberg II wrote:

(Macintosh) PGP Encrypted file:         pgEF

This needs to be added to 9.1.

No.

It's possible that a UA will write the encrypted data to a file. It's helpful for Mac files to have the right type. It certainly isn't harmful to the document to add it.

The encrypted data is in an application/octet-stream body part (which is the second part of a multipart/encrypted), not in application/pgp-encrypted. application/pgp-encrypted is the first part of a multipart/encrypted, which is supposed to hold meta information about the encrypted data. With PGP/MIME, that's just a dummy, containing the character string "Version: 1".

See also section 4, and the example on page 5 of the draft.

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