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Re: Split Implementations of PGP

2005-03-15 13:11:40

On 12 Mar 2005, at 3:24 AM, Ingo Luetkebohle wrote:

Even better would be to have individually encrypted parts.  This is
possible with PGP/MIME but not current practice.  Trouble being, of
course, that the sender would have to know this is in advance.


Better for whom?

One of the reasons that practice is to not have individually encrypted parts is that that has not been considered as good, meaning not as secure. It isn't as convenient for an entity who doesn't have the keys to process such a message, and that's been considered a feature rather than a bug.

        Jon