PGP/MIME considered harmful for mobile

[Ben McGinnes]

On 27/02/11 3:28 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
> 
> If you look at the characteristics of the actual messages encrypted
> mail is very similar whether it's in-line or MIME.

Exactly, the encrypted output in both methods uses base-64 encoding.

> It's signed messages that make things interesting because the
> signature in a MIME message is actually (sort of) an attachment but
> also sort of not, which is why it confuses simple mail readers like
> Outlook Express.

Lots of things confuse Outlook Express.  As for attachments, at first
glance the body of a message appears to be an attachment to the
headers, which leads to all sorts of fun with munged mbox format
inboxes.  Or it did when I last had to pay attention to such things.


Regards,
Ben



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