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Re: GPG and Signing



"John Fleming" <john@wa9als.com> writes:

> While we're still on this, why do most of your (Debian-users-who-sign)
> emails show up in OE with the signature and the email text as
> attachments? It seems whether I use GPG or a Thawte cert, they still
> don't show up as attachments.  Are you doing something "special" to
> make them show up that way, and I assume there's something desirable
> about doing it that way -
> please tell me.  Makes it hostile to REPLY TO, at least with OE.  I
> suppose the problem is with OE, but I'd still like to understand
> what's happening. THANKS!  - John

The reason you and people who use OE see it as an attachment is
because MS is unable to implement an 11 years old standard.
This page (http://www.imc.org/smime-pgpmime.html) has a discussion about
the different standards (PGP/MIME and S/MIME) and links to the different
RFCs.

-- 
John L. Fjellstad
web: http://www.fjellstad.org/          Quis custodiet ipsos custodes



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