On Wednesday 26 May 2004 18.30, Holger Sesterhenn wrote: > Hi, > > regarding to chapter 3.4 of the rfc2440bis-10 "the character set for > text is the UTF-8 encoding of Unicode". > > Does this mean I have to convert e.g. the text body (text/plain) of a > mail to UTF-8 before encryption? Hmmm. I was going to say that PGP/MIME avoids this problem entirely by requiring all data to be ascii-only (using base64 or qp to achieve this). But looking through 3156, I see that - 8bit data for encryption-only messages is allowed and - it seems not to specify if text or binary mode should be used in encryption. (I did only quickly scroll through, so maybe I just missed that bit) The kmail OpenPGP plugin seems to use binary mode (and even so, uses a 7bit-clean encoding inside the encryption), so this would indeed not be an issue. Dunno about other implementations. greetings -- vbi -- COFFEE.EXE Missing---Insert Cup and Press Any Key.
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