Re: Armour

[Ian Brown <I.Brown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you hadn't noticed, I am now trying to keep all my posts to around a
page. A lot of people on this list seem to simply skip anything longer
;-)

I agree with Gavin's points, and thought I would just quickly summarise
them for said people:

> O/PGP cannot define the contents of the file system at large, 
> but it can define a valid file for its own purposes.  Nothing will ever 
> stop people from sometimes serving the wrong files to an application...  
> we still need to repack the file if we want to transmit it over the
> internet and mime is the way to go in that area.

> If it 
> has not been suggested already let's get multi byte alphabets built into 
> the standard from the ground up.  No late add-on fixits to cater for the 
> Chinese, Hindu, Japanese... scripts.  These are all huge markets and 
> getting bigger, and I believe there is already an ISO standard for these 
> alphabets.  We don't have to invent this wheel.  Just use it and make 
> O/PGP savvy with it.

> >PGP/MIME does not provide methods to
> >encapsulate some legal PGP packet structures which were expected not to
> >be used for email.
> 
> Propose the packets for inclusion.

Ian :D