The fact that very few can/do create/verify multipart/signed email is
mostly a statement on the extremely sad state of security on the
Internet; to which I guess I'm contributing by not signing my mail :-(
The use of authenticating tehcnology (even if it is just to
authenticate that two messages came from the same nym) should be
encouraged, not blocked.
Donald
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From: Michael Richardson <mcr(_at_)research(_dot_)solidum(_dot_)com>
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Jan 2001 17:03:16 PST."
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Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 07:55:56 -0500
"hardie" == hardie <hardie(_at_)equinix(_dot_)com> writes:
hardie> Example:
hardie> A multipart/signed message containing a pgp signature known to
hardie> some/all members of this list. As, for example, the ietf
registrar pgp
hardie> signature (see http://www.ietf.org/ietf-registrar.asc).
Of the subset that can process PGP, a very small number can actually
process multipart/signed. I have never got mailcrypt.el to do it,
the Euroda and Outlook PGP plug-ins don't do it. The only ones that I know do
it are PINE, ELM and EXMH.
So, such a message would be better done as a straight clear-signed message.
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