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Re: OpenPGP vs. OpenPGP/MIME

2002-02-12 00:29:09

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On Friday 25 January 2002 01:48, Jon Callas wrote:
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.
<snip>

So we should prolong the lifespan of a broken design (just think i18n) 
just because the mime interop of some widely deployed mail software is 
less than optimal?
What about encouraging people to implement PGP/MIME and see its wide 
deployment force others to fix their stuff?

Just the opinion of someone implementing of a MIME parser: Plain pgp is 
ugly as hell, PGP/MIME resp. rfc1847 sucks much less.

Marc
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