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Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

> > What do you think?
> 
> There are some technical difficulties in your approach:
> 
> 1) In your first illustration, the parts have to be encoded more than
> once.  Gnus can not guarantee that two encoded results are same,
> because mml-computer-boundary may return different results.

Right.  Ouch.

> 2) In your second illustration, some users would rather see the
> content of the multipart/mixed part instead of the tags.  Besides, you
> may miss micalg and protocol parameters in the multipart/signed head.

Yes.  I think I've changed my mind about that approach too, it isn't
very good.

I'll use the `postprocess' framework for now (but I think we should
rename it, `sign=smime' or whatever looks nicer).