On 22 May 2011, at 15:44, John R. Levine wrote:

>> Interesting, but not less intricate.  The semantics of authenticating
>> only the armored part of a message is not obvious.  Resorting to
>> base64 encoding is subject to varying interpretations, including
>> spammers attempts to avoid naive content filtering.
> 
> S/MIME and PGP MIME have been doing just that, authenticating just an
> armored MIME body, for close to 20 years.  Your MUA probably has
> support for S/MIME built in.  

It does. It tells me that your MIME signature was incorrect.

> This is a wheel we do not need to
> reinvent.
> 
> R's,
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