On 2000-07-13 16:01:18 -0400, Daniel J Peng wrote:
> What exactly was wrong with the old way of signing
> e-mails, with "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----" and
> such? What is the benefit to PGP/MIME?
Try any of the following things with old-style PGP:
- Encrypt an iso-8859-1 message and decrypt and display it
on the Macintosh. This will result in garbled
non-us-ascii characters.
- Encrypt and sign a message consisting of plain text,
image, and plain text with a different character set.
You just can't express this with application/pgp.
Finally, I suppose you are referring to certain versions
of Outlook Express ignoring "Content-Disposition: inline"
headers on individual parts of multipart messages, with
the result that these content parts aren't displayed.
Frankly, that's not our problem. Ask Microsoft to get
this right. (The fact that "opening" these text/plain
attachments produces the normal "uh-oh, opening this may
be dangerous" dialog, is just another sign for the
nonsense going on there.)
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Thomas Roessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
