-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tim May <tcmay@got.net> wrote:
If messages are signed, great care should be taken to ensure that the signatures do not in any way interfere with the normal presentation of good old ASCII text, the lingua franca of the online world.
The problem you're seeing arises because your mailer and others like it (Outlook, etc.) do not follow the PGP/MIME standard (RFC 2015, Oct. 1996), which calls for the support of the content-types application/pgp-encrypted, application/pgp-signature, and application/pgp-keys. Unfortunately, many of us use mailers that make some attempt at supporting standards, and in the end you just can't read our mail. There is at least some blame to be placed with the people who came up with these standards. A lack of backwards-compatibility is almost always a recipie for disaster, especially because of the sheer number of mail programs available. Fortunately, I'm using an open-source mail client, so I'm not stuck with unsupported standards. :-) - -- Riad Wahby rsw@mit.edu MIT VI-2/A 2002 5105 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6KuJEiHor6RkxxqYRAss6AKDS/VS+ZTOH7h3Ort/Envt57kO0MgCfTtVO 7yRUvudiBEUcP3yc/l9Z+EE= =DzdN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----