Re: Content-Type in DSAs

[lupe@lupe-christoph.de (Lupe Christoph)]

On Tuesday, 2004-01-06 at 18:00:13 +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
> Clinging to sanity, Alexander Neumann mumbled in his beard:
> > * Lupe Christoph <lupe@lupe-christoph.de> wrote:
> >> Comparing the DSAs and reading how mutt recognizes a PGP signed message,
> >> I found that only some DSAs from Martin Schulze have a Content-Type as
> mutt
> >> wants it:

> >>   Content-Type: application/pgp; format=text; x-action=sign

> > -> PGP/MIME

> No. PGP/MIME is multipart/signed on the top level, whatever the mime type of
> the message is in the first MIME part, and application/pgp-signature in the
> second MIME part.

> application/pgp is a never standardized text/plain variant of an inline
> signed message, with the main problem that some Mailers do not render it
> correctly (since they assume that unknown application/... is binary, not
> text).

Martin Schulze does not use application/pgp anymore. I found it only in
older DSAs sent by him.

I now understand why the text/plain format is used. For something as
important as DSAs, I would use that myself.

Thanks for your explanations, people!
Lupe Christoph
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