Simon on Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:53:53 +0100 (CET) wrote: >> > Thanks to Sascha Lüdecke ROT13() we now have PGP (as >> > in RFC 1991, not 2015/3156 which we already have) support in CVS. >> >> For the RFC ignorant, what is the difference? >> >> I think we had PGP/MIME. What is RFC 1991? > PGP (RFC 1991/2440) means plain (Open)PGP blobs inserted into mail without > any MIME awareness at all. It is what Mailcrypt natively supports. > PGP/MIME (RFC 2015/3156) is PGP with MIME awareness. Oort has supported > PGP/MIME for some time, using gpg.el or Mailcrypt as the backend. > With a few more menu items and commands added to Gnus, such as "Insert > Public Key", I don't have to use the Mailcrypt menu hooks at all. Good ! Mailcrypt doesn't support sig with international characters (which sux). If Gnus now does, I'll be able to use plain text sign for my usenet posts. > Also, it would be nice if we could interop with those Outlook PGP plugins. Yeap. I agree. -- Fabien Penso | LinuxFr a toujours besoin de : http://perso.LinuxFR.org/penso/ | http://linuxfr.org/dons/