pgp/mime vs in-line pgp

Atom 'Smasher' atom-gpg at suspicious.org
Tue Apr 13 22:22:59 CEST 2004


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> 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.
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please disregard my previous response to this... i was "thinking out loud"
and accidently hit send.

anyway, what if gpg supported quoted-printable input? how much of the
problem would that solve?


	...atom

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