keysigning ?= UIDsigning

Frank Tobin ftobin@uiuc.edu
Tue, 4 Jul 2000 04:29:12 -0500 (CDT)


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Thomas Bader, at 09:56 +0200 on Tue, 4 Jul 2000, wrote:

> No, this does not work.  Imagine, if you send such a mail in
> Quoted-Printable: There could be some MTAs which convert it to 8Bit
> before storing it in the users mailbox.  Due to the converting, the
> signed content gets invalid. You can avoid this by signing the content
> before it gets encoded to Quoted-Printable. But this seems only
> possible by using PGP-MIME.  All Mailers I know do the signing *after*
> encoding to Quoted-Printable.

Ah, I see.  I didn't grasp it since Pine's sending filters enact before
any encoding, so plugin-signing programs such as pgpenvelope sign 8bit,
not quoted-printable.

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Frank Tobin		http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/

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