notion conventions: OpenPGP, PGP/MIME, ASCII Armor, inline, embedded

Eddie Roosenmaallen gnupg-users@gnupg.org
Tue Sep 16 07:05:01 2003


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Hi,

I've always understood the old way (the method I use) to be called "inline
PGP", and the newer way is PGP/MIME. ASCII armour is an ambiguous term to
use, as ASCII armouring can be used for inline PGP, PGP/MIME, ARCFOUR,
micellaneous binary transfer, etc.

Peace,
  Eddie Roosenmaallen

Martin Bretschneider wrote:
> the method that I thought that named ASCII Armor. So, how to call the
> "old way". Inline, emebedded? I scanned the RFCs but could not found it.

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