[Enigmail] 3rd party certificates

[Adam Gould]

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Robert J. Hansen wrote:
|> My reason for the question is that when I email a friend whom uses OE
|> enigmail produces a gibberish footer.
|
| OE is the likely culprit.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the "gibberish" footer Angel
is referring to is the inline OpenPGP signature (see the bottom of
messages sent by others on this list, or hit CONTROL+U in Thunderbird to
show the original source of the message as Enigmail "hides" this data
when it finds it).  You can still use OpenPGP (Enigmail) with your email
using PGP Mime which creates the signature "as an attachment" in a
manner of speaking.  However, PGP Mime doesn't work well with Outlook
Express - the recipient will simply receive a blank email with two
attachments - one html attachment with your message in it and one .asc
file which contains the message signature.

If your friend used OE and is not interested in OpenPGP technologies,
S/MIME will be the least obtrusive way for you to communicate with
encryption and signing.  However, if your friend was able to install
OpenPGP software (such as GPG4WIN - http://www.gpg4win.org/) then you
will be able to use OpenPGP and Enigmail more easily.

Hope this helps,

Adam

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