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Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Martin Christensen <knightsofspamalot-factotum@gvdnet.dk> writes:
>
>> Speaking of which, is it really necessary to include the public key
>> (as I assume it is) with each message?
>
> No, it isn't technically necessary, but otherwise the receiver will
> have to find the certificate somewhere else, and I'm not sure this
> works well everywhere.  So it is probably a good idea to do so, even
> though it makes the signature much larger.

It's probably a good idea to omit the public key if you want to use
S/MIME on Usenet, though.

Otherwise the signature part gets so big that some newsserver filters
classify the article as a misplaced binary, and throw it away.