Re: IMAP vs. multipart/signed

Bill Wohler (wohler@uluru.worldtalk.com)
Tue, 27 Feb 1996 16:56:14 -0800

Terry Gray <gray@CAC.Washington.EDU> writes:
> The proposal I heard at the meeting was that the multipart/encrypted use
> of content-type=application/octet-stream should be changed in favor of a
> MIME type that would give the MUA a hint about which external processor
> it should invoke to decrypt the object.

  On second thought, isn't this information already provided by the
  multipart/encrypted protocol parameter?

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