Mime Type for Encrypted Attachments

[Ingo Klöcker]

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On Monday 19 May 2003 17:54, Todd wrote:
> 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

Definitely not. Those content types are used for completely different=20
things.

Regards,
Ingo


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