Re: MIME-PGP

[Florian Weimer <fw@s.netic.de>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Do you mean that the decryption/verification hook should sweep the
> message first, and then transform the message in some way?  By
> decoding stuff or verifying stuff, and then replacing that stuff with
> the decoded/verified stuff?  Hm.

Well, sort of.  Did you get the code I sent to you?  I hoped it would
clarify my approach (although it's an utter mess).

I'd like to suggest the following solution:

- encoding: provide a hook which allows to generate MIME multiparts
  based on the encoded version of the contained parts.  This means that
  you can write (had to fake it a bit, so that Gnus groks it ;):

    | <# multipart type=signed>
    | This is a signed multipart.
    | <# part type="text/plain" filename="~/file2"
    |   disposition=attachment description="signed attachment">
    | <# /part>
    | <# /multipart>

  ...and Gnus will do the necessary work automatically when you send
  the message.

- decoding: do all verification and decryption during the dissection
  phase (don't defer it until the article is actually displayed; an
  appropriate hook is required, of course).

> Well, why not just quote the "\nFrom " lines before calling the
> qp-encode function?  It seems like a cleaner way to do this.

Eh, I don't see how this could work.  If a s/^From /From=20/ is done
before qp-encode is called, wouldn't this result in `From=3D20'?