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Re: Clearsigned messages and MIME
Marc Mutz <mutz@xxxxxxx> writes:
> On Wednesday 01 May 2002 12:35, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> How does one implement it correctly? Add the signatures after
>> generating the actual octet stream, and then apply a suitable
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding afterwards?
>
> octet-stream? Do you want to clearsign binary data?
Sort of, yes.
> I think most implementations will only recognize clearsigning on
> text/plain body parts. Probably other text subtypes, too.
Already with some ISO 8859 variants, text might look light random
binary garbage to the casual reader. ;-)
> For text, this is what KMail does:
> - apply charset encoding to obtain 8bit text
This results in an octet stream (in contrast to a sequence of
characters).
> - clearsign with --textmode
> - put the result into a text/lpain body part
> - apply CTE, if any.
I see. Gnus will do the same, in the future.
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