PGP/MIME considered harmful for mobile (Jameson Rollins)

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For those of us who use webmail, inline signatures are rather
useful.

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> From: Jameson Rollins <jrollins at finestructure.net>
> To: "Robert J. Hansen" <rjh at sixdemonbag.org>, gnupg-users at gnupg.org
> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:45:03 -0800
> Subject: Re: PGP/MIME considered harmful for mobile
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:22:03 -0500, "Robert J. Hansen" <
> rjh at sixdemonbag.org> wrote:
> > Just as an FYI to the list --
> >
> > On Android's mail application, PGP/MIME attachments are nigh-unusable.
> > It won't render even the plaintext portions: it has to be downloaded and
> > opened with a text reader.  If you're concerned about your mail being
> > readable on a mobile device (which is increasingly important nowadays),
> > you might want to consider switching to inline signatures.
>
> Yikes!  I thought we were almost done killing inline signatures!  Don't
> revive it now!
>
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