Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 11:18:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: peace(_at_)bix(_dot_)com
...
Perhaps I'm am not the norm, but I have at least five different mail
programs that I use depending on where I am and which of several
systems I access. We even have one service where the messages are
printed on paper prior to delivery due to a missing link between
two systems. Each has their own set of header messages that they
pass thru to the user....
Please don't read into my comments more then what was there. All I was
saying is that if you care about what information was signed, then you
should look only at the output of the de-enhancing process, not the
input to that process. Only the output can be reasonably guaranteed to
correspond to what was digitally signed.
What the output "means" and how it should be displayed to the user is
(in standardese) a local matter. Presumably if you are feeding the
result of a de-enhancing process to a program to parse, presumably the
sender arranged for the input to the en-hancing process to be the
"stuff" desired by the program.
-Jeff