Re: [openpgp] Put Signature in an Email's Header

Hi Wiktor,

Does signature.asc even show up as an attachment if you set the disposition to 
inline for PGP/MIME? That would be the obvious solution for suppressing 
unwanted signature.asc attachments for non-aware recipients.

Bart

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On Friday, December 11th, 2020 at 11:22 AM, Kai Engert 
<kaie(_at_)kuix(_dot_)de> wrote:

> On 11.12.20 11:14, Neal H. Walfield wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 10:03:44 +0100,
> > Wiktor Kwapisiewicz wrote:
> > > On 11.12.2020 09:58, Hanno Böck wrote:
> > > > FWIW I have heard lots of complains about the signature attachment,
> > > > which is why I stopped sending signed emails by default a long time ago.
> > > Too bad signatures cannot be put into headers (just like DKIM
> > > signatures). That would not confuse people (because they generally
> > > don't inspect headers) while providing necessary info for clients that
> > > understand them.
> > When you say cannot, I think you mean there is no standard to so.
> > Technically, I think, it is possible, and it is a neat idea.
> It's a nice idea, but it's also new, so it's not practical as the single
> mechanism to use in the immediate future.
> Preserving compatiblity with a majority of existing implementations is a
> high priority for me, and using the gpg-keys attachment mechanism seems
> best to achieve that.
> Kai
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Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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