decrypt is not de-encrypt and then verify ?

[Matthias Odisio]

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Werner Koch wrote:

> No.  There are 3 approaches to send an encrypted an encrypted and
> signed message:
> 
>   1. Classic PGP armor (gpg -sea)
>   2. PGP/MIME with combined encryptedn and signature.
>   3. Regular PGP/MIME where the signature is encapsulated into a MIME
>      object and that MIME object is than encrypted and encapsulated into
>      another MIME object.
> 
> 2 and 3 are suggested; 3 has the advantage that it fits better with
> the MIME framework and that it allows to strip the encryption header.
> See RFC3156 for details.  Most Windows mailers don't support 2 and 3,
> though.
> 
> What you did is similar to 3 but without using the correct MIME
> syntax.  MIME has the advantage that the sematics of the encrypted
> data is known, and thus the mailer can do the Right Thing.
> 
> > considered above, the mailer seems to add these 3 "garbage" lines :
> > ***
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> 
> That's no garbage, but meta information about the message; see rfc2882.
> 
> 
> Shalom-Salam,
> 
>    Werner

Thank you for that fine answer !

Matthias