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Re: many rejects (Re: Second call for votes for the debian project leader election 2007)



Scribit Steve Langasek dies 01/04/2007 hora 13:09:
> Hrm, is there really an RFC that specifies encryption before signing?

AFAIK, the RFC specifies how to build an encrypted MIME body and a
signed body. When you want both, you can either store a signed body in
the encrypted one, or an encrypted and signed PGP data as an encrypted
body...

> That would violate the expectation that people other than the intended
> recipient of the mail should not be able to verify the source.

Which provides you with repudiability for non-recipients, which can be
an expectation too.

Differently,
Pierre
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