From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/33717 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Canonical methods for digitally signing and verifying Date: 17 Dec 2000 15:04:25 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <5bwvd1tsvr.fsf@brandy.cs.rochester.edu> <2n7l51s77u.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 1035169769 26548 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:09:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:09:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 976E3D049D for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 09:04:59 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAB26925; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 08:04:58 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 17 Dec 2000 08:04:21 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA02339 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 08:04:08 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from dolk.extundo.com (dolk.extundo.com [195.42.214.242]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F297D049D for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 09:04:32 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated) by dolk.extundo.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eBHE4Q027504; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 15:04:26 +0100 Original-To: Lloyd Zusman In-Reply-To: Mail-Copies-To: nobody Original-Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.0.93 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33717 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33717 Lloyd Zusman 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.