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

2015-04-14 16:43:54
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On 04/14/2015 10:56 PM, Werner Koch wrote:
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.

Yes we should do that. Again: We need a MIME type for _non_-armored
data, so if we would use "pgp-encrypted" we would definitely not
follow RFC3156.

I am also not convinced that it is a good idea to use "pgp-encrypted"
for anything other than the version, it would require a parser to
differentiate "pgp-encrypted" with version-only and "pgp-encrypted"
with data.

So I would propose (following Tim Bray): pgp-message as a new MIME
type for data-only.

Regards
Dominik
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