EICS proposal

Anthony E. Greene agreene@pobox.com
Tue Feb 4 11:50:01 2003


On 04-Feb-2003/10:24 +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <avbidder@fortytwo.ch> wrote:
>
>(rfc1847:
>   The multipart/signed content type contains exactly two body parts.
>   The first body part is the body part over which the digital signature
>   was created, including its MIME headers.
>)

I stand corrected.

I expect that signing the MIME headers is a PITA for PGP/MIME
implementers. You pretty much have to write PGP/MIME into the mail client.
The level of integration needed for it to work properly would be difficult
with a plugin.

Tony
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