Mime Type for Encrypted Attachments

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 21 May 2003 22:03:22 +0200, Ingo Klöcker said:

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

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

I don't see a problem using pgp-encrypted or pgp-keys as the top MIME
type.  The processing is not different to the RFC3156 case where they
are encpasulated in multipart/encrypted.  pgp-signature should only be
used for a detached signature though.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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