From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31572 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Raja R Harinath Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: MIME Security with PGP (RFC2015) Date: 30 Jun 2000 18:20:17 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <2naehcprfu.fsf@tiger.jia.vnet> <2nsntyd9tj.fsf@tiger.jia.vnet> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035167966 14885 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:39:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:39:26 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3AB1D0530 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 19:26:19 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAC09255; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 18:21:10 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 30 Jun 2000 18:20:01 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA05534 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 18:19:51 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mail.cs.umn.edu (mail.cs.umn.edu [128.101.36.200]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16CCED0530 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 19:20:19 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from han.cs.umn.edu (IDENT:root@han.cs.umn.edu [128.101.35.134]) by mail.cs.umn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA16055 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 18:20:18 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from harinath@localhost) by han.cs.umn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.0) id SAA04174; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 18:20:18 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: han.cs.umn.edu: harinath set sender to harinath@cs.umn.edu using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Simon Josefsson's message of "30 Jun 2000 18:51:46 +0200" Original-Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.6 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31572 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31572 Simon Josefsson writes: > Shenghuo ZHU writes: > > > If we implemented both protocols, I think we should rename it to > > rfc1847.el instead of rfc2015.el. > > Yes. I'm writing rfc1847.el now, with S/MIME support. > (PGP/MIME should be easy given yours and Florians work.) > > I think I'm going to take a different approach than you and Florian. > Instead of adding MML tags that say that a part should be > signed/encrypted when sending it, I'm adding commands for "sign this > MML part" and "encrypt this MML part" that does the signing > immediately. [snip] > I would like this better than encrypt-when-send, with it I would > always have the feeling that I never knew what was sent. How do you ensure that if the signature still matches? I could create a part, sign it, edit it some more, and forget to request a recompute the signature. Will it flag an error when the message is attempted to be sent? What does the user have to do to fix the error? - Hari -- Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ harinath@cs.umn.edu "When all else fails, read the instructions." -- Cahn's Axiom "Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing." -- Roy L Ash