I'm sure there are more qualified people to answer this, but since I've been 
staring at pgp-mime for the last few months, I thought I would give a few 
thoughts.

I believe you are asking, "is it possible to concatenate signatures, to create 
a new signature block which is then used with pgp-mime."

1. I think this is possible. If the dean signs your content, and you receive 
his signature, I *believe* that once an implementation gets the signature 
packet from the signature, it could added to a signature block. Each signature 
packet contains the keyid of the signer (if put there), and its own signature 
type/algorithm/hash/etc. So, I *believe* each signature is independent of every 
other signature.

In my process of checking a signature, I find the keyId and lookup the keyId 
for the publicKey. So it doesn't matter who the mail is actually from.



2. An alternative, which you spoke of, I believe, would also work. Where a 
pgp-mime signature pair, contains a pgp-mime signature pair. So your dean would 
send you the mail, and you could encapsulate it with your own signature. 



The tricky part, of course, would be if any implementation actually facilitates 
this.



Cheers,

-tim

p.s. Thanks for your help with the pgp-mime previously, -- g...@pmx.mooo.com

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