Re: Digital Sigs (was IS: ATTN: List Mom: Unnecessary smime attachments)
Re: Digital Sigs (was IS: ATTN: List Mom: Unnecessary smime attachments)
- Subject: Re: Digital Sigs (was IS: ATTN: List Mom: Unnecessary smime attachments)
- From: Jean-Baptiste LE STANG <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 19:00:09 +0200
Have a look in your keychain, the digital signatures are added to your
keychain
++ JB
Le 13 sept. 04, à 16:20, Sander Tekelenburg a écrit :
At 00:31 -0600 UTC, on 2004/09/13, Johnny AppleScript wrote:
On 04/09/13 12:06 AM, "J Charles Ferrari" <email@hidden>
wrote:
smime.p7s is not an attachment. It is a digital signature. It tends
to
appear as an attachment in email clients that do not handle digital
signatures. See https://www.thawte.com/cgi/personal/contents.exe
I wonder why, then, I have as many attachments in my attachments
folder
titled as such as have been sent via this list today.
Because apparently your mailclient doesn't do something more useful
with
them. (Neither does mine.) What I'd expect it to do is hide the sig (by
storing it in some separate cache-like location) and automatically
verify it
(and do something useful with the result). I believe Mail.app with the
PGP
plug-in does something like that.
As I understand it email is email - it knows of no such thing as
"attachments". If a mail client recognizes some part of the email as
something the user would wish to be considered a separate file, it
(hopefully) will treat that part as an "attachment". But it might also
treat
some part of a message as an attachment when the user would have
preferred
something else. My point being there is no real definition of what
constitutes "attachment" - it is very much a mail client thing (aside
from
headers and standards that are supposed to help it make that decision).
[...] it still begs the
question, is it really necessary for list members to digitally sign
email
Digital sigs are a good thing IMO. It's too bad more mail clients
don't offer
good support for it. It could be made real easy and comfortable, but
due to
the lack of support in many email clients people consider digital sigs
a
nuisance. Nothing to do with digital sigs itself really.
However, for backwards-compatibility's sake I much prefer in-line
digital sigs.
--
Sander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/>
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