pgpmime "gotcha"

[Chris Green <cmg@uab.edu>]

I was bitten by this today so I figured I'd aleast document the fact
that things may not work the way you expect them to work.

I was forwarding an email to somone that I know and the data was
sensitive enough that I decided to use pgpmime.

Did a pgp/mime sign and didn't even notice that it was a "pgpmime sign
attachment".

Short story:

pgpmime part
"hi this is the email"

mimeattachment 
[ this is what I'm sending you ]


C-c C-c and the msg part gets encrypted but the forwarded part
didn't.  Now I understand the pgpmime part treats each part as a
separate attachment but once I decided that part of the mail was
important enough to protect, it'd be nice to atleast have a warning on
the rest or apply it globablly to each mime part.

I take it pgpmime requires each part individually done rather than
make the message and encrypt the whole thing like the old days.

Hope this helps someone avoid getting burned badly.
-- 
Chris Green <cmg@uab.edu>
A good pun is its own reword.