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OpenPGP mail/news header -02

2005-10-31 03:29:09

Hi everyone!  FYI:

I submitted an updated version of this document a few weeks ago.  The
changes since -01 are small: A new "preference" field has been added,
to signal whether the sender wish that e-mail should be signed,
encrypted or both.

Given previous discussions, I feel that we won't be able to reach
consensus on a "supports" token, to signal preference between
PGP/MIME, inline PGP (or even a combined PGP+MIME mode), so I am will
drop it altogether unless someone proposes text.  The problem in
proposing text is that there is no specifications, at least that I
know about, that describe how OpenPGP is used in e-mail, except for
PGP/MIME.  And no, RFC 2440 is not sufficient, as it doesn't describe
interaction with non-ASCII, format=flowed, attachments, UseNet
signatures and perhaps other things that I forget.

The remaining issue is to fix the ABNF schema.  Once that is finished,
I will ask the IESG to publish this as an individual draft.

Thanks,
Simon

Internet-Drafts(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org writes:

      Title           : The OpenPGP mail and news header
      Author(s)       : A. Smasher, S. Josefsson
      Filename        : draft-josefsson-openpgp-mailnews-header-02.txt
      
   This document describes the OpenPGP mail and news header field.  The
   field provide information about the sender's OpenPGP key.

   See <http://josefsson.org/openpgp-header/> for more information.

A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-josefsson-openpgp-mailnews-header-02.txt

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