[4707] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: [IRR] Problems with Eudora plugin for PGP 6.0.2i
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Del Torto)
Fri May 14 14:40:12 1999
In-Reply-To: <199905141403.KAA06698@domains.invweb.net>
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 11:11:32 -0500
To: Jon Callas <jon@callas.org>
From: Dave Del Torto <ddt@lsd.com>
Cc: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>, cryptography@c2.net
At 9:51 AM -0500 1999-05-14, William H. Geiger III wrote:
>In <v04003a16b3616b90c22a@[38.232.7.7]>, on 05/14/99
> at 01:20 AM, Jon Callas <jon@callas.org> said:
>
> >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.
>
>Wow!! Did I miss something, I never saw this opinion on the IETF lists. :)
>
>Did you have a change of heart now that you are a free man? :))
>
>IMHO MIME security encoding are not a bad thing, unfortunatly the vast
>majority of e-mail programs can not properly process complex MIME encoding
>(this is for any type not just security encoding).
I was a bit taken aback by this myself, since Thomas Rosseler and I
are currently working on a new OpenPGP/MIME draft... would you care
to elaborate on what makes (all?) MIME encodings with security a
"crock" before Oslo? Or were you just in a grumpy mood? ;)
dave
