On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 23:30:18 +0100 Peter Palmreuther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Jonathan, > > On Tuesday, December 3, 2002 at 11:15:59 PM you [JC] wrote (at least > in part): > > >>> I have noticed that messages "cryptographically signed" in MIME > >>> format show up in TB! with a dinky little Bat inside a circle on > >>> the message glyph when read and unread. Would there be any > >>> way to do this with PGP encrypted messages as well? > > >> I don't think so. S/MIME comes as an attachment which can be indicated > >> as that, whereas PGP is plain text. > >> > > > PGP signatures can come as attachments also. This message is an example. > > But I think it has to be supported by the mail client. > > It has. > And there's a big difference between S/MIME signed and PGP/MIME signed > messages: > > ,-----= [ S/MIME ] =----- > | Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; > | micalg=sha1; boundary="----------EA1CAB733401F57" > `-----= > > ,-----= [ PGP/MIME ] =----- > | Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; > | micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="=.SIbCX1.4Pt(gu+" > `-----= I may be overlooking something, but the only real difference that I see in the example you list above is the protocal. > The Bat! signs the mails in message list according to > "application/pkcs7-signature", it does not even verify the signature > for doing so. "application/pgp-signature" is (yet, I hope) unknown to > The Bat! and therefore shown as "real attachment" and not treated as > signing in any way :-/ I think I'm in agreement with your implied issue with TB!'s handling of S/MIME signatures. I'd really like to know why TB! won't let me delete them like every other attachment. /sigh Once I've verified the signature on an e-mail once I don't really need it anymore. It is a waste of space. It may not seem like a lot but over time it adds up. Consider that a recent S/MIME signed message sent to this list consisted of 1008 bytes of text, and a S/MIME signature of 2.2 kilobytes. This means that roughly 2/3 of the total message was the signature. -- Best regards, Jonathan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
