Marc Mutz <mutz(_at_)kde(_dot_)org> writes:
On Wednesday 01 May 2002 12:35, Florian Weimer wrote:
How does one implement it correctly? Add the signatures after
generating the actual octet stream, and then apply a suitable
Content-Transfer-Encoding afterwards?
octet-stream? Do you want to clearsign binary data?
Sort of, yes.
I think most implementations will only recognize clearsigning on
text/plain body parts. Probably other text subtypes, too.
Already with some ISO 8859 variants, text might look light random
binary garbage to the casual reader. ;-)
For text, this is what KMail does:
- apply charset encoding to obtain 8bit text
This results in an octet stream (in contrast to a sequence of
characters).
- clearsign with --textmode
- put the result into a text/lpain body part
- apply CTE, if any.
I see. Gnus will do the same, in the future.
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