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Re: gpg/pgp noise



On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 03:41:40PM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote:
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> 08.05.2012 15:38, Indulekha kirjoitti:
> > On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 03:05:30PM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: 
> > 08.05.2012 15:03, Indulekha kirjoitti:
> >>>> 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? :\
> >>>> 
> > 
> > I don't understand how those other mailing lists are inproper.
> > 
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
> > They don't support the considerate version of gpg/pgp. Now that I
> > know that people using this actually have a choice and choose to be
> > rude, it does make it rather tempting to set up an autoresponder
> > and filter to nag them...
> 
> Note that gnupg mailing lists are also affected and they aren't lists
> themselves, the problem is in mailing list software. I think that they
> all use GNU Mailman, which is very popular among mailing lists.
> 
> People don't have a choice if they are on mailing lists, which force
> this by having this bug, but do as you want.
> 
> - -- 
> Mika Suomalainen
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There is always a choice --for instance you have the choice to only sign 
the maill to those lists.

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 Indulekha 


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