-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Wed, 14 Dec 1994, L. McCarthy wrote:
I'm using a version of ELM which claims to be MIME-compliant and usually is, but all I saw in Peter Cassidy's message was a collection of random-looking extended-ASCII characters. Usually when something arrives in a locally- unsupported MIME format (like Amanda's GIF a while back), I just get an "unrecognized format" error message. I didn't see any error messages at all this time, just a meaningless jumble of characters (different, incidentally, from the PGP-cipherptext-like characters Tim quoted).
Thats what that thing was susposed to be. I got the same things with pine, which I know is susposed to be mime aware. Anyway all this talk about it gave me an idea. A PGP mime extention, where your mail says that you have a PGP encoded message, enter secret pass phrase to contiue. I think this would do a couple of things First get PGP installed on more machines. Sys Admins who install MIME aware applications would almost be required to install PGP beacuse it is a part of MIME. Secone more people would be introduced to PGP. The first time they use a MIME aware application ie. PINE they would be given a message that they do not have a public/private key set up, ect. That time could be used to explain the basics of encryption, public/private key's, and security issuse of using PGP. Third PGP would be more frequently used beacuse it would be right there with there E-Mail, ect. It would not require as much work to set up beacuse the programs could prompt to do things ... Do you want to encrypt this E-Mail with the recipiants public key [Yn] ... Groove on dude Michael Conlen - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBLvCAzyoZzwIn1bdtAQFCnQGAi19XGrhhoUi7gaAJnG6UUeUjUqvX9yL+ m7qc768s3wEs5sdEqY2mT+JVCT1ES3PB =tQFE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----