Arguments for inline PGP

Thomas Kuehne thomas-gmane at kuehne.cn
Tue Aug 9 22:30:17 CEST 2005


David Srbecky schrieb:

> Thomas Kuehne wrote:
> 
>> Alphax schrieb:
>>
>>
>>> Thomas Kuehne wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>> Points taken - Have you ever looked at an signed (using MIME)
>>>>> message in
>>>>> OutlookExpress? AAAARRRGGGG .....
>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry, I've never used Lookout.
>>
>>
>>
>> The attachment is a snapshoot of David Srbecky's recent MIME signed post
>> "Re: Extra information in public key" to this list.
>>
>> If the MIME declaration is change from
>>
>> multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; ...
>>
>> to
>>
>> multipart/mixed; micalg=pgp-sha1; ...
>>
>> OutlookExpress displays the message just like Mozilla or KMail without
>> encryption plugins.
> 
> 
> Sorry for that. I do not know that happened. (Could it be some misuse of
> "Edit as New..."?)

No, that is a bug with Outlook's MIME processing.
Likely one of the core problems keeping the MIME-versus-inlined war alive.

Thomas






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