Re: OpenPGP Minutes / Quick Summary

Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org> Wed, 19 July 2006 22:36 UTC

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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:08:24 -0700
From: Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>
To: Jon Callas <jon@callas.org>
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Subject: Re: OpenPGP Minutes / Quick Summary
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On 2006-07-19 13:44:13 -0700, Jon Callas wrote:

> * OpenPGP/MIME work. We have issues with OpenPGP/MIME and 
> interoperability with it. ... At the other end of the scale,
> tidying up OpenPGP/MIME means coming up with a profile of an
> existing standard.

So, the current OpenPGP/MIME spec is already relatively strict
and actually takes away some of the degrees of freedom that the
original PGP/MIME left open.  Would you care to elaborate a bit
more about what points you'd like to clean up?

Thanks,
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