-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 17/03/2015 20:22, Ludwig Hügelschäfer wrote: > On 17.03.15 20:00, Anne Wilson wrote: > >> +1. Perhaps Patrick could point us to a beginners' guide >> detailing the differences? > > Inline-PGP: The traditional method. It dates back to the 90s. The > ciphertext replaces the plain text of a mail. Attachments were not > part of the plan, and had to be signed/encrypted manually and then > attached. Later, good mail clients learnt to deal with them and > could sign/encrypt them independently and put the mail together > automatically. Signed mail can be read using mail clients not > aware of the OpenPGP content. Signed (not encrypted) HTML content > is problematic, signature failures happen frequently. > > PGP/MIME: Standardized way (RFC 3156) to deal with signed/encrypted > OpenPGP content regardless of the presence of attachments. Puts > the signed/encrypted content in an attachment. The signature covers > text and attachments. The mail body itself is empty or has a simple > explanatory sentence. Only PGP/MIME-capable mail clients can > display signed mail. Most modern mail clients support this > standard, however, the most important that does not is Microsoft > Outlook. HTML content is covered perfectly. > > Neither of the standards can encrypt mail headers including the > subject. > > Hope I didn't forget anything... > That makes things a lot clearer. I generally use inline, but noticed that if an attachment is present I was asked if PGP/MIME could be used. Perhaps I should move over to always using PGP/MIME, in that case.
Thanks to both of you. Anne -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlUJoCEACgkQj93fyh4cnBfC+gCffIqpp34OpZukq1oh2hszv+lP SpUAn2ql298EsP9dnCiTv3EV1MtAuqWm =DE8U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here: https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
