Checking emails signed in-body

John Arbash Meinel john at arbash-meinel.com
Wed Feb 1 16:16:36 GMT 2006


James Blackwell wrote:
> Some people are still using in-body gpg signatures. This generally works
> with more clients (particularly windows ones) but doesn't work too well
> with newer clients that only naturally deal with S/MIME. I have included
> in this email two procmail recipes from the mutt-gnupg howto that silently
> convert inbody to S/MIME so that mutt can deal with them in the way it
> knows best.
> 
> Just in the off chance that you know someone that does inbody
> signatures...

I've been tempted to use in-body signatures, because Thunderbird +
Enigmail messes up when you have attachments. (It actually signs the
body + a newline + attachment, but doesn't seem to realize this when
reading. if I grab the text manually, and run it through gpg --verify it
is correct).

I'm not sure why Aaron uses inline signatures. I mostly switched because
sending to people who don't handle signatures they get a weird
attachment rather than weird text inside. (Though my family has asked my
how to read 'signature.asc' before :)

Thanks for the recipe, though.

John
=:->


> 
> 
> :0
> * !^Content-Type: message/
> * !^Content-Type: multipart/
> * !^Content-Type: application/pgp
> {
>     :0 fBw
>     * ^-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
>     * ^-----END PGP MESSAGE-----
>     | formail \
>         -i "Content-Type: application/pgp; format=text; x-action=encrypt"
> 
>     :0 fBw
>     * ^-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>     * ^-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>     * ^-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>     | formail \
>         -i "Content-Type: application/pgp; format=text; x-action=sign"
> }
> 


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