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Re: gpg/pgp noise



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Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Tue, 08 May 2012 14:53:30 +0300
>Mika Suomalainen <mika.henrik.mainio@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
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>> 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.
>
>I'm no expert in all this, but can you explain and document what you
>mean by the claim that "headers ... must be verified"? All emails have
>their headers modified en route (e.g., "Received:" and "Delivered-To"
>are added, as are all kinds of "X-stuff" ones). Does PGP/MIME really
>protect all headers (beyond the MIME ones)? It really breaks if *any*
>headers are modified? Please provide documentation.
>
>http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1847.txt
>http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg01938.html
>
>This stuff is old, but do you have anyth, PGP/MIME emails add some headers.
ing more current?
>
>Celejar

MYbinformation is based on wht others answered when I asked what caused that problem at enigmail-user.
As far as I understand, pgp/mime adds some headers to messages which AAAre signed with it.

PS. I crosslisted this so people who know about this cAAAn answer. Debian-user allows everyone to post on it, but I don't know aboutt Enigmail.

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