Mime Type for Encrypted Attachments

Todd Todd <Freedom_Lover@pobox.com>
Wed May 21 14:05:04 2003


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Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
> What would be the correct content type for encrypted attachments if the
> mail is sent as inline PGP (i.e. multipart/mixed)?
>
> I have found a number of content types that seem to be in use, so I'm
> not sure what would be the "best". I know that e.g. Outlook uses
> "application/octet-stream", but I think this is a rather bad default.
>
> What about "application/pgp" or "application/pgp-encrypted", any idea?

I think it would be one of:

    application/pgp-encrypted
    application/pgp-signature
    application/pgp-keys

Those are the content types defined in

    ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/media-types

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