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On 15.03.13 07:32, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On 03/15/2013 02:20 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>> I'm signing this message using S/MIME, out of curiosity to see
>> what it does after the mailman footer is appended.
> 
> OK, i've checked this out now, and Thunderbird silently ignores
> all S/MIME signatures unless the entire message itself is
> S/MIME-signed. (that is, the top level Content-Type needs to be
> multipart/signed)

I get a "red" signature indicator from your message (which means
signature invalid).

> So i suppose one option for enigmail would be to behave in the same
> way -- that would certainly avoid the confusion we've identified.
> However, it also means that enigmail would be unable to verify any
> message that passes through a standard footer-appending mailman
> list (since mailman makes the whole message multipart/mixed with
> two immediate parts: multipart/signed and the text/plain footer.
> 
> Yuck, i don't see any good options right now for doing proper 
> verification given the user interface we currently have to work
> with. I'd love to hear other suggestions or proposals.

I personally think that the best compromise is to display the status
as we do now, but prefix it with something like "only a part of the
message is signed". I'd love to hear other opinions though.

- -Patrick

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