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Re: [IRR] Problems with Eudora plugin for PGP 6.0.2i
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J Horacio MG)
Tue May 18 10:03:23 1999
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 14:05:23 +0200
From: J Horacio MG <homega@vlc.servicom.es>
To: cryptography@c2.net
Reply-To: Horacio <homega@vlc.servicom.es>
In-Reply-To: <199905172347.QAA08743@blacklodge.c2.net>; from cryptography-digest on Mon, May 17, 1999 at 04:47:54PM -0700
~~> From: Jon Callas <jon@callas.org>
~~>
~~> 1. All encrypted or clearsigned messages go out as _attachments_, and
~~> not as message bodies. This leads to a profusion of files with the
~~> extension .MSG in the \WINDOWS\TEMP directory. The plugin apparently
~~> does not delete these files after sending.
~~>
~~> 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.
Blaming MIME/PGP encoding for what a crappy O.S. is not able to deal
with seems a bit unfair to me.
~~> 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.
There's enough information in a mail headers, plus you may add more...
if that weren't enough for you, then you may still add a personal sig at
the end of the message.
Digital signatures are for verifying the sender, and they must keep
functional in this line (which I think pgp/mime adds to this
functionality).
Regards
P.D. using Mutt and GnuPG with no problems whatsoever (under
Debian/Linux).
--
Horacio
homega@vlc.servicom.es
Valencia - ESPAŅA
