Re: [openpgp] Another candidate pgp wg item: Media type

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Tue, 14 April 2015 20:21 UTC

From: Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>
To: Dominik Schuermann <dominik@dominikschuermann.de>
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On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 20:59, dominik@dominikschuermann.de said:

> model. So what MIME type should now be used to share this encrypted
> blob? Following the RFC3156 we use "application/octet-stream" but
> that's really unspecific. Recall that we are using no ASCII armor here.

Okay, so your comments are about PGP/MIME.  I assumed you were talking
about

  5.9.  Literal Data Packet (Tag 11)
     [...]
     - A one-octet field that describes how the data is formatted.

where we discussed to add an 'm' format to describe that the content is
a MIME message.

If you want to indicate that the content is some OpenPGP data you should
use the the MIME types "application/pgp-encrypted" etc. along with the
above suggested format specifier.  You can of course do the same at the
outer level.

What needs to be changed for this?  

Updating PGP/MIME to avoid the required multipart/encrypted container is
a topic we should discuss.



Shalom-Salam,

   Werner


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[openpgp] Another candidate pgp wg item: Media ty… Tim Bray
Re: [openpgp] Another candidate pgp wg item: Medi… Werner Koch
Re: [openpgp] Another candidate pgp wg item: Medi… Dominik Schuermann
Re: [openpgp] Another candidate pgp wg item: Medi… Werner Koch
Re: [openpgp] Another candidate pgp wg item: Medi… Dominik Schuermann
Re: [openpgp] Another candidate pgp wg item: Medi… Werner Koch
Re: [openpgp] Another candidate pgp wg item: Medi… Dominik Schuermann
Re: [openpgp] Another candidate pgp wg item: Medi… Werner Koch
Re: [openpgp] Another candidate pgp wg item: Medi… Dominik Schuermann
Re: [openpgp] Another candidate pgp wg item: Medi… Werner Koch