Can't check pgp-6.5.8 signatura

[Owen Blacker]

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Andreas Hasenack wrote (2001-10-16 T 18:39 -0200):
>
> From: Andreas Hasenack <andreas@conectiva.com.br>
> To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org
> Subject: Can't check pgp-6.5.8 signatura
> Message-ID: <20011016183959.U1614@conectiva.com.br>
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: application/pgp; x-action=sign; format=text
> Content-Disposition: inline; filename="msg.pgp"
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i
> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 18:39:59 -0200
>
>
> [NON-Text Body part not included]

I've deleted some of the headers (obv).  Was this message actually
OpenPGP compliant, as pine gives me no way of accessing its content
whatsoever.

Whilst I understand that lots of mailers, including pine, don't adhere
to the OpenPGP specs and don't use the "preferred" Content-Type method,
looking at this (and having only glanced at RFC 2440 and RFC 3156) it
seems like a really bad way to do this.

RFC 3156 mentions that application/pgp is now a withdrawn MIME type, I'm
aware that I don't know enough (or, indeed, as much as I should) about
OpenPGP message standards, but was this message a right way to do it? It
just seems plain stupid to create a mainly-text message (assuming it was
clearsigned -- surely it's considered bad form to send binary-signed
messages to a list?) and label it application/* so that most MUAs will
choke on it.

Opinions?  Am I just being too unfamiliar with the OpenPGP standards?


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