On 12/26/2012 6:01 AM, Werner Koch wrote: > Actually the OpenPGP armor format is pretty robust to the extend it can > be. However, you are likely talking about mail. Here I can only > suggest to use PGP/MIME - it is part of the MIME standard and should be > supported by all sane mail clients. It is a *16 year* old standard and > has been implemented even earlier.
A word of caution may be in order: PGP/MIME is a fragile format and does not play nice with mailers (remailers, mailing list software, MTAs, anything in the chain) that plays with attachments. There are a surprising lot of these out there: for instance, the PGP-Basics mailing list at Yahoo! Groups is configured to strip all attachments, which means that PGP/MIME signatures on that mailing list are simply impossible. GnuPG-Users and Enigmail-Users have each within recent memory had mailing list software (GNU Mailman) which broke PGP/MIME signatures. When the community's flagship mailing lists cannot reliably use PGP/MIME, I'm a little cautious about recommending PGP/MIME as a general-purpose, ready-for-the-end-user solution. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users