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[Rui Miguel Seabra]

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 10:02 -0400, Jay Daniels wrote:
> gpg signed messages are sent as attachments by default in mutt.

Not only that, the author of mutt is also the author of the RFC for
mime-signed messages. => I pretty much believe mutt does it the right
way.

> i can understand signing a message to the list with gpg to insure that
> your messages are verified they are sent from you.  however, i don't
> think anyone cares unless it's a list or fedora package update notice
> - and they don't sign those either.

I care to verify messages signed by people in my keyring.

> i setup gpg once with mutt, but nobody ever used it or sent me any gpg
> encrypted messages and i found it worthless and a waste of time typing
> in the password string.

so it's your problem. don't use signed/encrypted messaging :)

> there is also the isssue of compatibility
> between gpg and different versions of ms windows pgp clients.

There are RFCs and OpenPGP is a standard, no? Why not complain to the
proprietary or incompatible clients?


Regards, Rui
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