[pmmail-list] pgp/mime support in PMMail ?

[L.Willms]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 21:55:24 -0700, Martin Moran wrote:

> 
> Hmmm... that's odd.  I wonder why it's bad when it pulled your key from
> the signature, not the .ASC key file.

   When you try and look at the entire message, you find that there is the 
regular PGP headers, like "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----" even within the 
message part of Content-Type: application/pgp-signature, but there is not a 
header delimiting the signed part (I think it would be somethink like 
"-----BEGIN SIGNED MESSAGE----" or similar). So without recognizing the 
"Content-Type: multipart/signed" and analyzing the MIME structure of the 
message, PMMail can't find out which part of the message should be checked 
against the signature (according to RFC2015, a "multipart/signed" message 
consists of exactly two parts, and the first one is the one being signed).  
 
   Also the PGP key can be extracted from the body part with "Content-Type: 
application/pgp-keys", since it is initiated with "-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY 
BLOCK-----". There might be a problem for the PGP version on your or mine 
side, since it is created using GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux). 



Lüko Willms
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Frankfurt/Main  

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