At 11:46 PM +0100 1/24/02, Thomas Roessler wrote:
On 2002-01-24 23:38:13 +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote:
I agree with Jon's opinion. PGP/MIME interoperability is bad.
Really? It certainly won't get worse than MIME interoperability in
general.
That is precisely my point. It's not a PGP problem, it's a MIME problem.
Which means that PGP/MIME is a good thing in theory, but not in practice.
Once MIME interoperability starts working, more power to it.
I believe it is the design of RFC 1847 that makes interoperability
low. I'm even considering arguing for the solution chosen by
Outlook PGP plugins when it comes to PGP and MIME, just PGP
encrypt each MIME part without touching the MIME headers at all.
Funny enough, S/MIME uses RFC 1847 as well, and that one works.
Funny enough, not I nor anyone I know has ever used S/MIME successfully.
But I suspect that is cultural more than technical.
Jon