signing emails

[Adam Pavelec]

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On Wednesday, December 11, 2002 9:12 AM [GMT-0500=EST], Michael
Anckaert wrote:

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> Hello all,
> I get 2 different kind of signed emails, emails with a detached
> sig and emails with the sig in the email itself. 
> What is the correct form according to the RFC (or what is the
> standard)?
>  
> thanks,
> 
> -- 
> 
> Greetings,
> Michael Anckaert
>     aka The XanTor
> xantor@linux.be
> OpenPGP Key: 0xC772D5C1

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> (Michael's detached signature)

I'm not sure if there actually *is* a correct form according to
the RFC -- if there is, someone on this list will definitely let
everyone know.  I prefer reading the inline, "ClearSigned"
method.  As you can see above, when you use the detached
signature method, the body of the message is itself detached and
transformed into an attachment.  Here's a screenshot of what
your mail looks like from this perspective:
http://adam.pavelec.net/detached_example.png

- --Adam


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