Re: PGP 5.0 MessageID

Derek Atkins (warlord@MIT.EDU)
18 Nov 1998 10:17:22 -0500

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Try again. It's from the days (which still exist) when mailers have a
limit to the size of a message so you want to send it in multiple
chunks, and you want to use PGP's ASCII Armor instead of MIME
(because, maybe, you're not using EMAIL).

The MessageID was added in 5.0, so I don't know how you can call it a
sixth toe -- it's not like it's been in there since the 2.x format days.

-derek

PS: I should know what MessageID is for -- *I'm* the one who created it.
Have a Nice Day!

> Bag it immediately: it's basically a sixth toe from the says when non-MIME
> MTAs might break a long msg, so PGP used to pre-break the ciphertext (and ID
> the parts) to elude such beasts.
>
> dave

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