On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 17:40, [email protected] said: > According to RFC3156 [2] which defined `application/pgp-signature`, > I believe this to be wrong. Can any one confirm this?
No. RFC-3156 (PGP/MIME) does not really care about this mime type because: OpenPGP signed messages are denoted by the "multipart/signed" content type, described in [2], with a "protocol" parameter which MUST have a value of "application/pgp-signature" (MUST be quoted). ... the mulitpart/signed container has two parts: An arbittrary MIME part and a MIME part with a content-type as described by the "protocol" paramter (e.g. application/pgp-signature). Any other use is not defined by PGP/MIME. > In that case, is there a MIME type that has been defined for clear text > signatures? application/pgp-signature is often used. However, if you already change to MIME type to an application/foo type, the verifying MUA needs to be abale to cope with that. It would thus be easier to use PGP/MIME directly. Clearsigned is a hack from the dark ages of the mid-90ies where most MUAs were not MIME aware. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
