[apps-discuss] Stephen Farrell's Yes on draft-ietf-appsawg-malformed-mail-10: (with COMMENT)

"Stephen Farrell" <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Thu, 21 November 2013 12:17 UTC

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Thanks for a useful document. I would have loved to have
seen text about S/MIME and PGP issues, but I guess that
might require another equally long document all by
itself. It might well be worth looking though to see if
there's a reference to which you could point that has
relevant guidance about those. 

Separately, it might also be worth pointing out that
some of the handling guidance you give if applied to
some S/MIME or PGP messages is likely to break
signatures or make decryption impossible.

But those are just suggestions to take or leave, this is
already useful enough as-is.