On 07/16/16 10:32, Albrecht Dreß wrote: > Am 16.07.16 15:59 schrieb(en) Michael Fox: >> So, are there other obvious ways to recognize encrypted contents, other than >> "Content-Type: multipart/encrypted"? > > Basically, you need to check for > - OpenPGP/Inline (inspect every body, see rfc 2440, sect. 6.2) > - OpenPGP/Mime (multipart/encrypted, see rfc 3156, sect. 4) > - S/MIME (application/pkcs7-mime with a proper protocol type, see rfc 2633, > sect. 3.8) > > BTW, IMHO this is the *completely* wrong approach - people should be > *encouraged* to use encryption, at least since we know for sure that their > privacy is threatened everywhere...
Anyone who knows Theresa May, former UK Home Secretary, just selected as the new head of the Conservative party, will be unsurprised to know that almost her first public position pronunciation was that she sees no problem with passing laws in the UK to prohibit end-to-end encryption and require ISPs et al to provide backdoors into all encrypted traffic. Because, you know, that idea has no flaws *whatsoever* and has *never* ended badly anywhere else... -- Phil Stracchino Babylon Communications ph...@caerllewys.net p...@co.ordinate.org Landline: 603.293.8485
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