PGP/MIME considered harmful for mobile

Martin Gollowitzer gollo at fsfe.org
Fri Feb 25 19:37:23 CET 2011


* Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> [110225 18:31]:
> On 02/25/2011 12:11 PM, Martin Gollowitzer wrote:
> > * Patrick Brunschwig <patrick at mozilla-enigmail.org> [110225 10:10]:
> >> The only mail client on Android I know of to handle OpenPGP messages is
> >> K9 (together with APG). But K9 only supports inline-PGP, PGP/MIME
> >> messages are not displayed.
> > 
> > This is true, but K9 at least does display the messages correctly.
> 
> These two statements seem to be in direct contradiction to each other.

Sorry for the misunderstanding: The message body is being displayed, but
the signature is not verified. K9 is the only e-mail client for Android
that I consider usable.

All the best, 
Martin 
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