Re: MIME question about new draft

[lutz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Lutz Donnerhacke)]

* Ben Escoto wrote:
>From section 3.1.1 of the draft:
>
:RfC 2015 ... contains all information necessary to strip or apply this layer.
:It may make use of the Ascii Armor layer, but the octect stream may also
:encoded directly using MIME itself.

>The above seems to permit PGP output not being ascii-encoded
>but rather base-64 encoded.  Is my interpretation correct?

Yes.

>The section implies that nothing from rfc2015 has changed, but section 2
>of that document says "The ASCII armor output is the REQUIRED method
>for data transfer."

True. So our RfC will update RfC 2015.

>So, can the octet-stream portion of PGP/MIME messages be a
>base64 encoding of 8-bit PGP output?  Thanks.

Yes, that's the solution to choose in future (IMHO). There is no need for a
special session layer in the session layer. Of course, it's not backward
compatible to software do not understand MIME, but this does not harm.