Re: OpenPGP vs. OpenPGP/MIME

[David Shaw <dshaw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 11:38:13PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> 
> David Shaw <dshaw@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > I stopped using it when I found myself in a corporate environment
> > where the majority of people were using various corporate mailers that
> > blew up in various odd ways with it.  I'm sure this isn't a PGP/MIME
> > thing - they'd have blown up with any MIME they didn't understand, but
> > while a regular clearsigned signature can be ignored by those people
> > that either don't care or don't use PGP, a PGP/MIME message does not
> > always degrade quite so gracefully.
> 
> I think you just pretty well described what Jon meant by PGP/MIME
> often not working in practice, whereas OpenPGP usually does work.

Exactly.  I was agreeing with Jon as well (did I accidentally say
OpenPGP somewhere where I meant PGP/MIME or vice versa?)

In my experience, MIME in general except for two cases too frequently
does "interesting" things.  Those two good cases are a) the really
common stuff (attaching a file and forwarding an email, possibly with
its own attachments), and b) the stuff the vendor provides, and
therefore tests (S/MIME, etc.)

David

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