Is there a MIME type for clear text signatures?

[Jérémy Bobbio]

Werner Koch:
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 17:40, lunar at debian.org said:
> 
> > According to RFC3156 [2] which defined `application/pgp-signature`,
> > I believe this to be wrong. Can any one confirm this?
> 
> No.  RFC-3156 (PGP/MIME) does not really care about this mime type
> because:
> 
>    OpenPGP signed messages are denoted by the "multipart/signed" content
>    type, described in [2], with a "protocol" parameter which MUST have a
>    value of "application/pgp-signature" (MUST be quoted).
> 
> ... the mulitpart/signed container has two parts: An arbittrary MIME
> part and a MIME part with a content-type as described by the "protocol"
> paramter (e.g. application/pgp-signature).  Any other use is not defined
> by PGP/MIME.

Thanks for your prompt reply. I just filled
<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69794>.

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