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"Matt Armstrong" <matt+dated+1008537652.ebf9f0@lickey.com> writes:

>>>> How about a header field:
>>>
>>>>   X-Gnus: pgp-verified signature with key 0x454545 valid untrusted
>>
>> I don't understand the value of having a header line that says the
>> message was originally encrypted, the client already knows this?
>> And users should probably not trust such headers without the client
>> saying it is OK, and if the client can do that, the client could use
>> some other (better) way of conveying this information anyway.
>
> It would be a display-time only field that Gnus generates -- it
> wouldn't reside on disk.

Ah. I get it now.  Yes, it would be useful (just as long as Gnus
doesn't care about the header in incoming articles).  I'm not sure it
should be displayed by default, but having more ways of conveying
information about security status would be nice.