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Re: [openpgp] signed/encrypted emails vs unsigned/unencrypted headers

2013-07-17 03:01:51
On 17/07/13 08:45, Werner Koch wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 00:05, infinity0(_at_)gmx(_dot_)com said:

Your argument about "would require decrypt" is not tight; it applies
equally to the message contents ("you can't search yada"). This is a

No, it does not.  Stepping users of webmail aside, most people are using
IMAP and not POP3 or UUCP.  With IMAP you download the headers
(including the subject) and only then select which mails to read and
finally download.  Yes, this makes a difference if you think about
businesses with multi-megabyte PDF documents.


I don't see how this is significant - is it such a conceptual stretch to
imagine headers and the body being encrypted separately? Or do you mean that
RFC 822 does not support this?

In any case, this is not relevant to the OpenPGP standard and thus you
may want to move this discussion to another list.  FWIW, S/MIME has the
very same semantics.


Which mailing list, then? pgp-mime has been shut down and redirected to this
one: http://www.imc.org/ietf-pgp-mime/

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