[Enigmail] Any chance of X-PGP-Sig support?
Andrzej Filip
anfi at onet.eu
Mon Dec 17 02:47:06 PST 2007
Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> Andrzej Filip wrote:
>> Are there any chances for enigmail support of X-PGP-Sig standard?
>
> 1. It's not a standard.
> 2. It hasn't been adopted by any standards body.
> 3. The specification is not ready for prime time.
>
> For these reason, the answer is "not yet, and probably not in the near
> future, either." Of course, I'm just the UI geek; if Patrick decides
> this would be a nifty feature, he'll implement it. But knowing how many
> things he already has on his plate, I suspect he'll concur.
There are *de facto* standards. AFAIK X-PGP-Sig has been used to sign
Usenet control messages [create/delete group].
>> IMHO it is the best format (I know) for signing Usenet posts.
>
> As opposed to inline RFC4880, which is (a) well-specified, (b) has
> multiple implementations, and (c) is supported by many different Usenet
> mail readers?
About exactly which part of rfc4880 you talk about?
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4880.txt
Which part of it describes how to sign email/news messages in a way:
1) "fully invisible" to almost all news/email readers not supporting it
2) capable to sign subset of "main RFC822/RFC2822 headers"
URL(s):
ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/pgpcontrol/
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