On 5 Sep 2024, at 16:04, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]> wrote: > > PS for the record, i think there is one major concern about PGP/MIME > multipart/signed: for users of MUAs that don't understand PGP/MIME, > the signature shows up as a mystery attachment. I can't tell you the > number of times that i get a response from a colleague that says "i > can't open your attachment, please re-send". That happens often > enough that i deliberately do not sign mail unless i know the > recipient won't do that. That means i don't sign most of my mail,
I’ve been signing all my email (from my laptop anyway) for twenty years, and the last time I had complaints about mystery attachments was in the early 2000s. That said, there are a lot of automated systems (e.g. bug trackers) that treat the attachment as a file that needs to be recorded for posterity, e.g. attaching it to a ticket on every emailed comment/reply (although this also applies to HTML email signature footers, which is more annoying). So I do think that moving from an attachment-based cleartext format to a header-based one has some advantages. A
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