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Some time back there was some debate here about whether MIME ("Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions") features could be exploited to make encryption easier to use. I didn't pay much attention at the time, because I didn't know anything about MIME.
Here is my latest copy of "pgpedit", I have modified it to insert a "Content-Type" line to that MIME mailer will automaticly #!/usr/local/bin/perl #!/usr/local/bin/tperl4.036 # pgpedit V1.5 # Mon Mar 1 00:40:49 PST 1993 # Peter Shipley # to install (mh instructions) # place this script in your path (eg ~/bin) # create few links: # # ln -s /usr/local/mh/bin/repl ~/bin/pgprepl # ln -s /usr/local/mh/bin/comp ~/bin/pgpcomp # ln -s /usr/local/mh/bin/forw ~/bin/pgpforw # # Add the following to your .mh_profile: # # pgprepl: -editor pgpedit # pgpcomp: -editor pgpedit # pgpforw: -editor pgpedit # # To use just use the commands pgprepl or pgpcomp instead of repl or comp # # If you are Useing MH 6.8 with MIME you may also want to add the following: # # mhn-show-text/x-pgp: %ppgp -m '%F' # mhn-store-text/x-pgp: %m%P.pgp # # This `instruct' MH how to interpet the MIME header "Content-Type: text/x-pgp" # and have MH automaticly invoke pgp for devcryption or signature verification # require "sys/wait.ph"; #custom stuff here #default editor $defaulteditor="/usr/ucb/vi"; $pgpcommand="/usr/local/bin/pgp -sta +clearsig=on"; $debug=0; #test the arg count die "bad argument count" if ($#ARGV > 0); #set the umask to something really paranoid umask(07177); #set the path if there is not one $ENV{'PATH'} = '/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/bin' unless $ENV{'PATH'}; # get the editor if ($ENV{'VISUAL'}) { $editor=$ENV{'VISUAL'} ; } elsif ($ENV{'EDITOR'}) { $editor=$ENV{'EDITOR'} ; } else { $editor = $defaulteditor; } $editor = $defaulteditor if $editor =~ /pgpedit/ ; # prepare the file. &prepfile($ARGV[0]); # run the editor &run($editor, $ARGV[0]); # have pgp sign the file &SignMailFile($ARGV[0]); # the end exit 0; sub SignMailFile { local($INPUT) = @_; local($BODY) = "/tmp/pgp$$.body"; local($PGPBODY) = "$BODY".".asc"; local(@header); print "$INPUT \n" if ($debug); open(INPUT, "+>>$INPUT" ) || die "failed to open $INPUT: $!\n"; seek(INPUT,0, 0); open(BODY, "+>$BODY") || die "failed to open $BODY: $!\n"; select(BODY); $| = 1; select(STDOUT); while (<INPUT>) { last if (/^--------/); push (@header, $_); } if ($debug) { print STDERR "\n--header--\n"; print STDERR "@header \n" ; print STDERR "\n--BODY--\n"; print STDERR "$BODY \n" ; } while (<INPUT>) { print BODY $_; } print STDERR "$pgpcommand $BODY\n" if ($debug); `$pgpcommand $BODY`; # &run($pgpcommand, $BODY); if (! $? ) { truncate(BODY, 0); unlink($BODY); close(BODY); truncate(INPUT,0); open(PGPBODY) || die "failed to open $PGPBODY: $!\n"; seek(INPUT, 0, 0); print INPUT @header; print INPUT "Content-Type: text/x-pgp; charset=\"us-ascii\"\n"; print INPUT "--------\n\n"; print INPUT <PGPBODY>; } else { truncate(BODY, 0); unlink($BODY); close(BODY); if ( -f $PGPBODY ) { truncate(PGPBODY, 0); unlink($PGPBODY); close(PGPBODY); } } return; } sub prepfile { local($FILE) = @_; local(@data); open(FILE, "+>>$FILE" ) || die "failed to open $FILE: $!\n"; seek(FILE, 0, 0); while(<FILE>) { next if ( ?text/x-pgp? ); push (@data, $_); last if ( /^--------/ ); } # push (@data, "\n\n\n"); while(<FILE>) { last if (/^-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----/); } if( !eof(FILE) ) { while(<FILE>) { last if (/^-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----/); push (@data , $_); } seek(FILE, 0, 0); truncate(FILE, 0); print FILE @data; } close(FILE); return; } sub run { local($editor, $file) = @_; local($pid); FORK: { if ($pid = fork) { wait; } elsif (defined $pid) { # $pid is zero here if defined exec "$editor $file"; } elsif ($! =~ /No more process/) { # EAGAIN, supposedly recoverable fork error sleep 5; redo FORK; } else { # weird fork error die "Can't fork: $!\n"; } } return; } -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.1 iQBFAgUBK5HPZchmn7GUWLLFAQHGfgF9HFh4CwpEGi0UxYtswMA6VCxDSA/UaKzZ An7db1dLCOzZ3FEf7YjAi8Fi80482b+/ =j2S2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----