William H. Geiger III (whgiii@invweb.net)
Thu, 04 Jun 1998 02:35:22 -0500
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In <19980604072620.B7192@isil.d.shuttle.de>, on 06/04/98
at 07:26 AM, Werner Koch <wk@isil.d.shuttle.de> said:
>Tomas Fasth <tomas.fasth@twinspot.net> writes:
>> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> > Hash: RIPEMD160
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>> Shouldn't there be a matching
>> -----END PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> at the end of the message???
>No an armored message ends with ----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>and has a -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE---- in it.
>BTW: This armpred stuff is old fashioned, it's better to use MIME
>encoding.
I disagree,
There are still quite a few people out there that are *not* using MIME
based mailers. Also very few applications out there are capable of making
use of PGP/MIME formats.
*All* e-mail clients that support PGP can process clear-signed messages.
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