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Michael Kesper michael at localhost
Tue Jul 29 11:27:57 CEST 2008


Hi,

* Kunal Shah <kunalvshah+gnupg at gmail.com> [2008-07-25 13:08:52 -0400]:
 
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Kara <karadenizi at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Kunal Shah wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Is there any way to avoid that?
> >>>
> >
> > Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> >>
> >> Sort of.  PGP/MIME.
[...]
> In that case, I will need to obtain private key with openssl package
> and send my pub key to CA to obtain certificate. However, if i go with
> that procedure, my friends who uses GNUPg or PGP will not be able to
> verify my signature.
> 
> I guess I am running into cross platform issues. in fact, I need to
> sign the message using a. GNUPg private key for those who uses GNUPg
> and b. S/MIME for those who uses GPG/MIME or S/MIME. is that correct
> understanding?

GPG/MIME and S/MIME are two different approaches.
My advice would be to use GPG/MIME and to give friends the advice to
use mail clients that understand them.
Even outlook can be teached to understand it nowadays:
http://www.g10code.de/p-gpgol.html

Best wishes
Michael
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