On 07/11/2014 12:47 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> Could you send me (privately) an encrypted and signed message with your
> kmail instance?  I don't care what it says, but leave the body as a
> simple text/plain part -- no HTML formatting or attachments, and ask
> kmail to sign/encrypt with PGP/MIME.  Please encrypt it to my key
> 0x0EE5BE979282D80B9F7540F1CCD2ED94D21739E9.
> 
> I'll evaluate the structure and report back here on the list.

Samir sent me a PGP/MIME-encrypted message from:

User-Agent:
  KMail/4.13.2 (Linux/3.15.4-1-ARCH; KDE/4.13.2; x86_64; ; )

and it is structured in exactly the same way as the other Kmail message
i reported.  But enigmail is able to verify it, whereas the other one
was unverifiable.

It sounds like i need to go back to the original correspondent and
clarify their configuration to see if i can replicate this with
non-sensitive data.

interestingly, i'm looking at enigmail's PGP/MIME-encrypted messages,
and while they do bundle the signature directly into the encryption
layer, the cleartext of the PGP block looks like this:

D └┬╴multipart/mixed
E  └─╴text/plain


I would have expected just:

D └─╴text/plain

Is there a reason that enigmail doesn't use the simpler structure?  the
multipart/mixed seems like a bit of unnecessary cruft around the message.

Thanks Samir for your quick responses!

        --dkg

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