Re: Canonical methods for digitally signing and verifying

[Simon Josefsson <sj@extundo.com>]

Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:

> Assuming that my Spanish friend is using an email agent such as
> Outlook or Netscape to read my letters, and assuming that she does
> nothing to decode or verify my signature, is it likely that those two
> email clients do the right thing with the quoted printable text that
> I'm sending via gnus within my digitally signed message, and that the
> characters will be converted back into the 8bit Spanish characters
> when my friend is reading her email?

Yes.

> I'd like to start digitally signing ALL my outgoing messages

Signing posts to public mailing lists is not generally useful, IMHO.
(Mostly because of all programs out there with poor MIME support, not
to mention PGP/MIME or S/MIME.)  Some ML managers will even destroy
your signature to make it even more of a hassle.