pgp/mime vs in-line pgp

[Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder]

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On Tuesday 13 April 2004 08.43, Atom 'Smasher' wrote:

> * i've only heard of one MUA that chokes on in-line pgp, but plenty
> of MUAs can't handle pgp/mime.

Plenty? I know only one MUA that chokes on PGP/MIME. Other's don't 
support PGP, but most still properly display the email.

>
> * i've *never* had an in-line signature cause problems with someone's
> poorly configured virus filter.

True.

The big problem with inline is non-ascii text: when the senders charset 
differs from the receivers, the receivers MUA is likely to convert the 
message before displaying/storing - breaking the signature (not an 
issue when the receiver's MUA directly supports GPG/PGP.)

I'm not sure, but I can imagine that there may be problems with line 
wrapping, too, on conversions to/ftom quoted-printable.

Then there's the obvious advantage of PGP/MIME when you need to send 
attachments.

cheers
- -- vbi

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