Re: gpg/pgp noise

[Indulekha <indulekha@theunworthy.com>]

On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 01:05:10PM +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote:
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> On 08/05/12 13:03, Indulekha wrote:
> > On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 03:00:16PM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: 
> > 08.05.2012 14:57, Indulekha kirjoitti:
> >>>> On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 02:53:30PM +0300, Mika Suomalainen
> >>>> wrote: 08.05.2012 14:45, Jochen Spieker kirjoitti:
> >>>>>>> Indulekha:
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> No, I think you may have an incorrect or incomplete 
> >>>>>>>> configuration....
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> This is inline vs. MIME:
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> http://www.phildev.net/pgp/pgp_clear_vs_mime.html
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> J.
> >>>> 
> >>>> And that page forgets the problems in MIME.
> >>>> 
> >>>> PGP/MIME requires headers, message and the signature.asc to
> >>>> be verified. Some mailing list programs mess up with the
> >>>> headers and this way make PGP/MIME signatures unverifiable.
> >>>> 
> >>>> In INLINE, the signature is in message and it doesn't
> >>>> require headers to be verified so it's harder to be messed up
> >>>> by mailing list software.
> >>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> Well, all I know is that Jochen Spieker is able to use it
> >>>> without being intrusive.... Maybe you should try to follow
> >>>> his example? :)
> > 
> > If I used PGP/MIME, my signatures couldn't be verified on Ubuntu 
> > mailing lists (I am on 5 of them if I recall correctly), nor
> > Enigmail mailing list nor gnupg-user mailing lists nor many others.
> > This is small list of those MLs, which I mean with 
> > http://mkaysi.github.com/PGP/Clearsigning.html .
> > 
> > 
> > I see... so the people on the *proper* msiling lists will just have
> >  to suffer then, eh? :\
> 
> 
> Well, if that's all you have to suffer, I'd give thanks :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>   Phil...
> 
> - -- 
> currently (ab)using
> Debian Squeeze, Fedora Verne, OS X Snow Leopard, Ubuntu Oneiric
> 
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Oh, trust me -- if that was *all* I had to suffer I would indeed 
rejoice, LOL!
It's just one more of the "death by 1000 cuts" that comprises this 
rich pageant we call life...

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 Indulekha