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

On 11/21/2013 05:12 PM, John Levine wrote:
>> I don't think I've ever seen an ambiguity in an email message that included
>> S/MIME or PGP, so I don't have much to offer here.  My co-authors might, so
>> I'll let them chime in if so.  I'll do a quick look around to see what I
>> can find.
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> I'm not a co-author, but other than messages signed with expired keys
> it's hard to think of anything.  In general, if you don't have the
> key, you can't verify the signature or decode the message, so there's
> nothing to fix.

Well there were cases of folks messing up when they forwarded
signed mails and so on, but maybe those were all sorted in the
end. Paul H. might even have written something up back in his
IMC days. But again, I'm not asking that stuff like that be
added unless the authors want to do it.

S

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