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Re: Standardizing inline PGP for e-mail?

2003-01-24 16:44:34
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 20:30, Michael Young wrote:
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Sounds fine, but it begs the question of why, if you're going to
introduce a major operationaal change to how PGP signs things, you
 don't just change to generating multipart/signed.
<snip>
(I also wouldn't call this an operational change to how PGP signs
things -- the actual signing doesn't change.  We're simply talking
about the MIME wrapping done by the mail user agent.)
<snip>

It _is_ an operational change, since the "pre-draft" proposes to label 
utf-8 data with us-ascii. MUAs will not be prepared to decode UTF-8 
when the Content-Type says "us-ascii"...

Marc

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They [RIAA,MPAA] are trying to invent a new crime:
interference with a business model.
                           --Bruce Schneier, Crypto-Gram 08/2002

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