On 9130 day of my life Dan Mundy wrote: > hey all, > > i was wondering what the differences between conventional gpg > clearsigning and pgp/mime signing are. which one's better for what? > which should i use more often? please help me!
Clearsigning can be processed by recipient even if his mail client
dosn't know anything about GPG/PGP. PGP/MIME needs mail client
support.
However, clearsigning has problem with attachments and charsets. You
can't reconstruct charset of original message -- was it UTF-8, KOI8-R
or windows-1251. PGP/MIME handles it gracefully.
Clearsinged messages can be corrupted by transitional mail servers;
PGP/MIME cannot.
I prefer PGP/MIME.
--
Ivan Boldyrev
Tragedy of programmers is that computer is wonderful toy
and programmers have to use it in their work.
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