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

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Thu, 21 November 2013 17:13 UTC

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

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.

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