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

[Ned Freed <[e-mail]>]

> >    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.

> Like Murray, I haven't observed any S/MIME or PGP mangling (which doesn't
> mean it doesn't happen, just that it hasn't been caught).

We mostly deal with S/MIME, and I can't recall a case where an S/MIME
message (either signed or encrypted) got mangled. Certificate problems sure,
but that's a different sort of thing.

Signed PGP messages get "mangled" all the time, but that's because a lot of PGP
still uses the text/plain approach rather than multipart/signed. I regard this
as a case of PGP acting stupidly and getting exactly what it deserves.

				Ned