Re: Arguments for inline PGP (was: Leave clearsigned content encoding alone, how?)

2005-08-09 Thread Chris De Young
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 01:45:02AM -, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: Just say no to inline PGP! Some reasons I use inline: * My email has a much better chance of reaching people whose systems bounce (or discard!) attachments. Are there really a lot of such systems? I've encountered

Re: Arguments for inline PGP (was: Leave clearsigned content encoding alone, how?)

2005-08-09 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * My email has a much better chance of reaching people whose systems bounce (or discard!) attachments. Are there really a lot of such systems? I've encountered very few that bounce messages with attachments, and if they discard attachments

Arguments for inline PGP (was: Leave clearsigned content encoding alone, how?)

2005-08-08 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just say no to inline PGP! Some reasons I use inline: * My email has a much better chance of reaching people whose systems bounce (or discard!) attachments. * It is easy to transfer my message to another format (such as a webpage) while keeping

Re: Leave clearsigned content encoding alone, how?

2005-08-06 Thread Johan Wevers
Richard Sperry wrote: What I am wondering is if we can simply UUencode attachments, leave them alone and clear sign the whole message. Yes. However, AFAIK base64 is the default for attachments, and uuencode does have some problems with (now probably antique and not used any more) mail servers.

Re: Leave clearsigned content encoding alone, how?

2005-08-04 Thread Alain Bench
Hello Michael, On Wednesday, August 3, 2005 at 8:57:07 PM +, Michael Kjörling wrote: My MUA, muttng, correctly identifies the input data prior to signing as iso-8859-15 and after signing as utf-8 Mutt half-recently began to force outgoing traditional inline PGP messages to UTF-8,

Re: Leave clearsigned content encoding alone, how?

2005-08-04 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 15:16:24 +0200 (CEST), Alain Bench said: Mutt half-recently began to force outgoing traditional inline PGP messages to UTF-8, disregarding the $send_charset list (in fact acting Which is IMHO a proper interpretation of the OpenPGP specs. Despite what a lot of people

Leave clearsigned content encoding alone, how?

2005-08-03 Thread Michael Kjorling
I use gnupg-1.4.1 on GNU/Linux (up-to-date Gentoo, Linux 2.6.12 on AMD64 if it matters) to sign and encrypt my mail, and everything is fine as long as I stay with strictly us-ascii. However, when I use other characters (mostly national characters covered by iso-8859-15), gnupg converts the input