OpenPGP SMTP headers

Jeffrey Stedfast fejj at ximian.com
Tue May 18 22:31:23 CEST 2004


On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 16:21 -0400, David Shaw wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 16:13 -0400, David Shaw wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 03:55:12PM -0400, Atom 'Smasher' wrote:
> > > > would it be within the scope of RFC 2440 to recommend SMTP headers related
> > > > to pgp keys? such as:
> > > > 
> > > > X-OpenPGP-KeyID: 0xB88D52E4D9F57808 (4096-RSA)
> > > > X-OpenPGP-Fingerprint: 762A 3B98 A3C3 96C9 C6B7 582A B88D 52E4 D9F5 7808
> > > > X-OpenPGP-URL: http://smasher.suspicious.org/pgp.txt
> > > 
> > > This is really a question for the IETF OpenPGP list, but the answer
> > > (for me, anyway) is 'no'.  2440bis is mainly a data format document.
> > > 
> > > That isn't to say that you can't make a RFC for such a thing.  Just
> > > that 2440bis isn't the one to use.
> 
> On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 04:15:50PM -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > You should be using PGP/MIME anyway. Death to "inline pgp" for MIME
> > messages.
> 
> ?
> 
> The original post was in regards to headers to say "this is my key and
> here is how to get it".  It has nothing to do with the use of PGP/MIME
> or not.

why not just application/pgp-keys mime part attachment?

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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Novell, Inc.
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