Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
At 9:55 AM -0500 12/17/03, John Stracke wrote:
Modifying the Subject: line is a Bad Thing; it invalidates digital
signatures.
Which digital signatures are you talking about? Neither S/MIME nor
OpenPGP sign the headers in messages, only the bodies.
S/MIME can sign the Subject: header (see RFC-1848, section 6.3), and
probably should, since some people write messages where the subject is
part of the meaning--change the subject and you change the meaning of
the message.
(As an extreme case: at this company, people sometimes send messages
with no body at all. It's so common that they have a convention for it:
they put "(eom)" in the subject line, for "end of message".)
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