Breaking MIME concatenation

Whitey whitey at posteo.net
Fri May 18 15:50:00 CEST 2018


Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> I don't have concrete numbers here, but my suspicion is that GnuPG is a
> package verification system that's useful for email... and most of the
> problems people have with it as a package verification system stem from
> the fact it was originally an email privacy system.

Which might explain why some Linux distros are lax about updating GnuPG.
Ancient versions work o.k. for package verification.

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Whitey

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