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Re: [openpgp] Another candidate pgp wg item: Media type

2015-04-14 16:01:44
On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 22:43, dominik(_at_)dominikschuermann(_dot_)de said:

Where is it specified that "application/pgp-encrypted" can also
directly contain the data? Please point me to the line in the RFC.

You are right, it is not formally specified:

  MIME media type name: application
  MIME subtype name: pgp-encrypted
  Required parameters: none
  Optional parameters: none
  
  Encoding considerations:
  
     Currently this media type always consists of a single 7bit text
     string.

but I see no strong reason not to use it for amored data unless it is
enclosed by multipart/encrypted.

We could update rfc-3156 to formally define an OpenPGP container or
improve the defintion of this media type.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner


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