On Thursday 04 August 2005 09:46, Derek Atkins wrote:
[Jon] - Wants support to plain inline text - kill mime and only use plain
text as a personal preference.
I'd agree with this. OpenPGP needs to support a
basic mechanism to use open text channels in the
most robust fashion. The ascii-armouring has passed
the test of time in this fashion.
I don't think it is necessary to "kill mime" but I don't
have much hope for its survival. As it only works
when the other client also understands the format,
it is facing an uphill battle. ascii-armouring works
much better as the user becomes the fallback.
OpenPGP needs to think in terms of email being
a lesser and lesser influence. IMO, email is dying.
That's debateable, but what is clear is that the star
of IM is on the ascendancy, and the email thing is
losing that battle.
Currently, IM is mostly unsecured (there is this thing
to do with SSL to the server, but as the threat is on
the node, that's ignorable). The way to approach
securing chat (IMHO) is to layer OpenPGP over the
top in a transparent fashion.
That means ascii-armouring for the moment.
Other systems will have similar engineering demands.
Trying to integrate two disparate systems together is
hard.
iang
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Advances in Financial Cryptography, Issue 2:
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Mark Stiegler, An Introduction to Petname Systems
Nick Szabo, Scarce Objects
Ian Grigg, Triple Entry Accounting