After reading the recent MIME-PEM draft, I have two questions. I am not
in any way a PEM expert, so please bear with me if these are dumb questions.
Also I'm not on the pem-dev list, so please leave the Cc: above!
1) What is the reason to encapsulate clear-text PEM body parts in an
entity of type message/pem-clear, instead of including the body part
unencapsulated (e.g. as text/plain, but potentially any MIME type)?
The latter would provide better interoperation with MIME-capable UAs
that are not PEM-capable (MIME does not mandate any particular
treatment for unrecognized subtypes of message).
2) What is the reason for the "privacy" parameter to multipart/pem?
Doesn't it follow from the type of the first subpart and/or the
application/pem subpart?
3) Would a non-MIME PEM-capable user agent be able to recognize MIME-encoded
PEM messages? Is it at all possible to achieve this?
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