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RE: application/signed vs. application/mime vs. signedData

1997-08-04 07:15:02
At 10:39 PM 8/3/97 -0700, Steve Dusse wrote:
behind sucky gateways.  signedData always works.  multipart/signed does
not.

Nuff said ?

        Well, Steve, no.

        Orchestrated tests have a pretty high success rate, but little to do 
with
reality.  In any event, I don't recall anyone saying that gateways lack
problems with multipart objects that need to stay together.

        What your line of argument is forgetting is the reason there was so much
pressure for use of Multipart/signed.

d/
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