keysigning ?= UIDsigning

[Billy Donahue]

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On 3 Jul 2000, Florian Weimer wrote:

> Walter Truitt <wtruitt@ssd.usa.alcatel.com> writes:
> 
> [Claims that MIME-PGP is ugly and unnecessary]
> 
> > Why is that a US-centered view?  I am in the US and agree that it is
> > ugly, I just don't see exactly why it would be limited to here.  I
> > just don't like the way it works with some of my email programs.
> 
> In some regions of the world (actually, most), people can't write
> their native language in plain ASCII characters.  The clear-signing
> approach doesn't work reliable if there are non-ASCII characters, and
> MIME-PGP is a very straightforward solution.

The confusion was that I and others didn't know that non-ASCII characters
were mangled by 'gpg -sab'.

- --
"The Funk, the whole Funk, and nothing but the Funk."
Billy Donahue <mailto:billy@dadadada.net>
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