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

2001-07-17 13:44:22

Will Price <wprice(_at_)cyphers(_dot_)net> writes:

The "pgDS" file type is a Detached Signature. The correct file extension
for a detached signature is ".sig". These are ASCII files. They do *not*
use the ".asc" extension.

So you can't have a binary detached signature?  It must be ASCII?

-derek
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