GnuPG Clearsign vs. PGP/MIME Signing

[Ivan Boldyrev]

On 9130 day of my life Dan Mundy wrote:
> hey all,
>
> i was wondering what the differences between conventional gpg
> clearsigning and pgp/mime signing are.  which one's better for what?
> which should i use more often? please help me!

Clearsigning can be processed by recipient even if his mail client
dosn't know anything about GPG/PGP.  PGP/MIME needs mail client
support.

However, clearsigning has problem with attachments and charsets.  You
can't reconstruct charset of original message -- was it UTF-8, KOI8-R
or windows-1251.  PGP/MIME handles it gracefully.

Clearsinged messages can be corrupted by transitional mail servers;
PGP/MIME cannot.

I prefer PGP/MIME.

-- 
Ivan Boldyrev

                Tragedy of programmers is that computer is wonderful toy
                            and programmers have to use it in their work.
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