--- On Fri, 11/14/08, A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I do not understand the difference between PGP/MIME and
> OpenPGP; Where can I get specific details on the
> differences?
Download Thunderbird + Enigmail - add an attachment to your message, try to
encrypt the message - you will get a dialog how you would like to encrypt the
message.
Basically, PGP/MIME is like S/MIME the whole message block gets encrypted
(excluding headers) in one process - the result is a multipart message with one
text body (info about pgp/mime encryption) and the encrypted message itself as
an attachment.
PGP "Classic" or Partitioned format is, that you encrypt each bodypart and each
attachment separate, meaning if you add 3 attachments - you get 3 encrypted
attachments, if you have only a text message - only a text block is encrypted.
The only advantage of this is, that you can fetch headers of all body parts of
a message (like hushmail probably do) - and decrypt on the fly in the client -
when you use pgp/mime - you cannot know how many and which attachment are
encrypted.
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