Re: A brief comparison of email encryption protocols

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At 12:49 PM 2/14/96 -0800, Raph Levien wrote:
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>PGP
>---
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>   The main missing feature is the lack of MIME integration. Thus, PGP
>is not suitable for multimedia types other than US-ASCII text. PGP
>does contain some support for 8-bit charsets, but at cross-purposes
>with MIME. Signature checking of non-US-ASCII data is simply not
>reliable. To give an idea of this problem, the most recent
>international version (2.6.3i) tries several different character set
>conversions when verifying signatures, to see if any of them will
>work.

I am missing something here.  Are you saying that PGP has support issues for
multimedia, like GIFs and AU, and other special 8bit file thingees? Or are
you saying that its rather brut strength method of handling these do not
interface with   MIME?


Oh and thanks for the synopsis it is a great help, ties together a number of
things I've heard about the various methods.


See you all wednesday, I'm in the air to NANOG right now.

Robert Moskowitz
Chrysler Corporation
(810) 758-8212

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