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Re: [openpgp] saltpack on OpenPGP message format problems

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Fri, 12 February 2016 13:51 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>
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Subject: Re: [openpgp] saltpack on OpenPGP message format problems
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Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> writes:

>How do you want to paste binary data into a contact web form or a Git commit
>message?  The OpenPGP Armor makes this really easy and, fwiw, X.509 uses a
>similar armoring technique.

I dunno because that's not my area of expertise, but somehow every other
software mechanism in existence has managed to get by without needing its own
custom "ASCII armoring" (is there anything other than PGP that does this?), so
I'm guessing it's a solved problem.

>Regarding PGP/MIME, it might be worth to consider dropping the need for the
>ASCII armor in favor of standard MIME encoding.  This would also help to sort
>out faulty PGP/MIME implementations.

That would certainly help with usability, since 99.9% of the time it's
completely redundant and better handled through other mechanisms.

Peter.

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