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Re: [IRR] Problems with Eudora plugin for PGP 6.0.2i
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Udhay Shankar N)
Fri May 14 12:25:12 1999
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 12:16:38 +0530
From: Udhay Shankar N <udhay@pobox.com>
To: Jon Callas <jon@callas.org>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net, irr <tbtf-irregulars@world.std.com>
Jon Callas wrote:
> You probably have the preference for "use PGP/MIME by default" turned on.
> Turn it off. MIME security encodings are a crock, as you well know.
Nope, I don't have this turned on. It still sends out the messages as
attachments.
> With all due respect, (1) is neutral to security. (2) is debatable. I know
> that many people have complained that the plugin did *not* include the
> .sig. I've found it annoying myself, because my old sig included contact
> information and I wanted that signed. I think that (2) is fixing a bug,
> myself.
You're right, (1) is more an annoyance than a security hazard. But I
think that I should have the option of deciding whether an encrypted
message contains my signature. Maybe you could put in a word with the
Powers That Be ?
Udhay
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