On 2001-09-04 16:22:33 -0500, Ben Jones wrote:
>When you say "strongly deprecated" do you mean by Mutt's standards
>or by an official standard. If the latter, would you mind pointing
>me to a reference for my reading enjoyment? Not that I'm
>challenging you, because I'm not. I'd just like to lessen my
>ignorance on the topic.
Old-style PGP isn't cleanly specified, and has problems with
non-us-ascii character sets. It kind of works when you are doing
text-e-mail in English, but that's all.
PGP/MIME doesn't have this problem, and is cleanly specified (RFC
3156).
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Thomas Roessler http://log.does-not-exist.org/
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