Re: [openpgp] signed/encrypted emails vs unsigned/unencrypted headers

[Ximin Luo <[e-mail]>]

On 17/07/13 08:45, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 00:05, [e-mail] said:
> 
>> Your argument about "would require decrypt" is not tight; it applies
>> equally to the message contents ("you can't search yada"). This is a
> 
> No, it does not.  Stepping users of webmail aside, most people are using
> IMAP and not POP3 or UUCP.  With IMAP you download the headers
> (including the subject) and only then select which mails to read and
> finally download.  Yes, this makes a difference if you think about
> businesses with multi-megabyte PDF documents.
> 

I don't see how this is significant - is it such a conceptual stretch to
imagine headers and the body being encrypted separately? Or do you mean that
RFC 822 does not support this?

> In any case, this is not relevant to the OpenPGP standard and thus you
> may want to move this discussion to another list.  FWIW, S/MIME has the
> very same semantics.
> 

Which mailing list, then? pgp-mime has been shut down and redirected to this
one: http://www.imc.org/ietf-pgp-mime/

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