[24306] in Cypherpunks
Re: PGP-MIME spec (No Flames Allowed!)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Mon Dec 19 14:11:34 1994
To: "JEFF LICQUIA (CEI)" <JLICQUIA@mhc.uiuc.edu>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Dec 1994 08:55:32 CST."
<MAILQUEUE-101.941219085532.448@mhc.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: perry@imsi.com
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1994 13:50:02 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
"JEFF LICQUIA (CEI)" says:
> with an eye to writing some PGP-MIME kinds of tools. In doing this, I
> happened upon a post by Mr. Borenstein in comp.mail.mime stating, in
> effect, that the previous draft standard of application/pgp was a dead
> end.
It is a dead end. Look at the current PEM/MIME drafts for the new
security multiparts format. Its been accepted by the working group and
is on its way to draft standard.
Perry
