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Re: [IETF] Re: pgp signing in van

Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net> Mon, 09 September 2013 18:14 UTC

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Subject: Re: [IETF] Re: pgp signing in van
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On Sep 9, 2013, at 1:12 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> wrote:

> Signed PGP part
> On 9/9/13 11:02 AM, Cyrus Daboo wrote:
> > Hi Peter,
> > 
> > --On September 8, 2013 at 5:19:51 PM -0600 Peter Saint-Andre 
> > <stpeter@stpeter.im> wrote:
> > 
> >>> But until the MUAs across the board support it out of the box,
> >>> I believe most people don't know about it or know what it
> >>> means.
> >> 
> >> So that's an opportunity to educate people. For instance, perhaps
> >> the Internet Society might be interested in taking on that task.
> > 
> > Is there a reason you choose to use "inline" signing with PGP
> > rather than multipart/signed? Is that a technical reason (e.g.,
> > poor interoperability)?
> 
> Ignorance or misconfiguration in my use of Thunderbird, it seems.

Or maybe you are not actually using PGP and are simply relying on http://xkcd.com/1181/ ?

I''ve just added:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
to my .sig file collection.

Wonder how many MUTs will become unhappy? :-P

W

> 
> Peter
> 
> - -- 
> Peter Saint-Andre
> https://stpeter.im/
> 
> 
> 

--
It must be authentic: 
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
http://xkcd.com/1181/

W

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