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

2001-07-17 14:00:26

Derek Atkins <warlord(_at_)MIT(_dot_)EDU> writes:

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?

AFAIK, PGP 2.6.x can create such signatures, and there's nothing in
the OpenPGP standard which outlaws them, quite the contrary.  Probably
you only can't process them on the Mac due to lack of a proper file
type. :-/

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