GnuPG Clearsign vs. PGP/MIME Signing

[Kiefer, Sascha]

Hmm.
I just implemented RFC2015 3 days ago.
The format of PGP/MIME described in that paper does not match the format
you are using.
Your mails start with a Content-Type of multipart/mixed and you declare
The pgp data as attachments. But this is not true.
Maybe I'm missing something, or your messages not pgp/smime encoded?
I attached your mails (one signed, one encrypted) to this mail,
so you can check to see what i mean.

Regards,
Sascha

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnupg-users-bounces at gnupg.org 
> [mailto:gnupg-users-bounces at gnupg.org] On Behalf Of Sean C. C.
> Sent: Samstag, 4. Juni 2005 08:26
> To: Dan Mundy; gnupg-users at gnupg.org
> Subject: Re: GnuPG Clearsign vs. PGP/MIME Signing
> 
> 
> Clearsigning is good because it allows anyone to verify the 
> signature no matter what their system. Some people like to 
> use the current window function of PGP and front-ends for GPG 
> such as GPGshell. PGP/Mime is good for sending mail to many 
> people some of whom have no idea of what PGP/GPG is. Using 
> PGP/MIME the signature appears as an attachment as 
> 'signature.asc'. For people who aren't interested in PGP they 
> will probably never see the attachment. The down sides to 
> PGP/MIME are that people who use Outlook and OE will not be 
> able to see them correctly. They will see a blank email with 
> two attachments: 1) the signature and
> 2) the actual message.
> 
> DISCLAIMER: I'm still learning myself about PGP/GPG, so this 
> may not be exactly how it really is.
> 
> Dan Mundy said the following on 6/3/2005 8:30 PM:
> > 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!
> >
> > thanks all,
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >
> >
> > 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > --
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Gnupg-users mailing list
> > Gnupg-users at gnupg.org 
> > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
> 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: test.b64
Type: application/octet-stream
Size: 10162 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : /pipermail/attachments/20050604/b4d17d43/test.obj