From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/33703 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lloyd Zusman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Canonical methods for digitally signing and verifying Date: 15 Dec 2000 16:45:59 -0500 Organization: FreeBSD/Linux Hippopotamus Preserve 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 1035169758 26489 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:09:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:09:18 +0000 (UTC) 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 A14BCD049D for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 16:46:06 -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 PAB16754; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 15:46:06 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 15 Dec 2000 15:45:29 -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 PAA21671 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 15:45:19 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from home.acholado.net (acholado.net [216.182.19.128]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3190CD049D for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 16:45:44 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by home.acholado.net (Postfix, from userid 510) id 0C3DE19E96; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 16:46:00 -0500 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: "!ga1s|?LNLE3MeeeEYs(%LIl9q[xV9!j4#xf4!**BFW_ihlOb;:Slb>)vy>CJM Original-Lines: 50 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Canyonlands) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33703 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33703 ShengHuo ZHU writes: > Lloyd Zusman writes: > > > And now for a different question: > > > > Is there any way to tell gnus to encode my signed message as `8bit' > > instead of as `quoted-printable' (in the `Content-Transfer-Encoding' > > header[s] that appear in the signed message)? > > 8bit CTE is not safe for PGP. Some MTAs convert 8bit text to QP or > base64, which causes verification failure. Ah ... thanks. Forgive my ignorance about this subject, but will the quoted-printable conversion cause problems under the following scenario? ... I send 8bit email to one of my friends in South America, and this email contains the special Spanish characters (accented vowels and n's with tildes and upside-down question marks and exclamation points). After being converted to quoted-printable, these characters become 3-character sequences, which a normal Spanish speaker would have a hard time reading. 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? I'd like to start digitally signing ALL my outgoing messages, but if the case I outlined above would cause problems, then perhaps I'm going to have to be selective about the messages I sign and don't sign digitally. Thanks again, in advance. > ShengHuo - Lloyd -- Lloyd Zusman ljz@asfast.com