Re: Once again: PGnus & PGP

[Jack Twilley <jmt+usenet@nycap.rr.com>]

>>>>> "Rat" == Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

    Jack> So declare it an unsupported non-standard, and refuse to
    Jack> acknowledge those who use it.

    Rat> Which is pretty much exactly what I do.

Hee.  If someone didn't know you, they might call you an elitist or
something.[1]

    Jack> Now what about this PGP/MIME crap?  Is this the message with
    Jack> detached signature thing?

    Rat> PGP/MIME uses a combination of detached signatures and MIME
    Rat> encoding to hide PGP blocks from view.  Unlike X-Pgp,
    Rat> PGP/MIME retains at least some form of block delimitation
    Rat> which means that unless something really broken happened it
    Rat> should be possible to reconstruct the message so as to be
    Rat> able to validate the signature.

Okay.  So if the MIME blocks are analogous to files, why couldn't
mailcrypt simply take the "application/pgp-signature" and apply it to
the previous attachment, whatever it is?  Would that work?  I'm going
to test it on Carey's message, by hand.

    Rat> MIME itself is Evil, but that is a separate issue. :)

Indeed.  However, there are greater and lesser forms of Evil.  I'm
seeing X-Pgp as being Broken Evil, and this PGP/MIME as simply Stupid
Evil.

Jack.

[1]  If someone knew you, they might say the same.  Dunno. ;-)
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