On Wednesday 26 May 2004 18.30, Holger Sesterhenn wrote:
Hi,
regarding to chapter 3.4 of the rfc2440bis-10 "the character set for
text is the UTF-8 encoding of Unicode".
Does this mean I have to convert e.g. the text body (text/plain) of a
mail to UTF-8 before encryption?
Hmmm. I was going to say that PGP/MIME avoids this problem entirely by
requiring all data to be ascii-only (using base64 or qp to achieve
this). But looking through 3156, I see that
- 8bit data for encryption-only messages is allowed and
- it seems not to specify if text or binary mode should be used in
encryption. (I did only quickly scroll through, so maybe I just missed
that bit)
The kmail OpenPGP plugin seems to use binary mode (and even so, uses a
7bit-clean encoding inside the encryption), so this would indeed not be
an issue. Dunno about other implementations.
greetings
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