PGP/MIME considered harmful for mobile

MFPA expires2011 at ymail.com
Sat Feb 26 16:48:47 CET 2011


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Hi


On Friday 25 February 2011 at 1:45:03 AM, in
<mid:87lj14x4yo.fsf at servo.finestructure.net>, Jameson Rollins wrote:


> Yikes!  I thought we were almost done killing inline
> signatures!  Don't revive it now!

> If PGP/MIME is broken on android, we need to get them
> to fix it, not go backwards to inline pgp.

Using inline PGP signatures means using the simpler and more reliable
of the two solutions. The fact that its specification was defined
earlier does not mean using inline signatures is a step backwards;
PGP/MIME is a complement to pgp inline, not a replacement.

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Best regards

MFPA                    mailto:expires2011 at ymail.com

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative
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