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  1. Xref: sparky comp.mail.mime:176 alt.security.pgp:585
  2. Newsgroups: comp.mail.mime,alt.security.pgp
  3. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!wizzy!andyr
  4. From: andyr@wizzy.com (Andy Rabagliati)
  5. Subject: pgp headers for MIME
  6. Message-ID: <C18C4r.6K8@wizzy.com>
  7. Organization: W.Z.I.
  8. Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:31:39 GMT
  9. Lines: 26
  10.  
  11. Has anyone been working on a pgp interface for MIME ?
  12.  
  13. This would enable one to transparently send Public Key encrypted mail,
  14. and other things.
  15.  
  16. It would have to be orthogonal to the regular headers.
  17.  
  18. In correspondence with Tobias Weingartner <weingart@inf.ethz.ch> he
  19. suggests 
  20.  
  21. TW> I think pgp data should go so:
  22. TW> 
  23. TW> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
  24. TW> Content-transfer-encoding: X-PGP-{VERSION}
  25. TW> 
  26. TW> Where {VERSION} would be: 2.0, 2.1, etc...
  27. TW> 
  28. TW> This would allow the benefit of transferring text, sounds,
  29. TW> graphics, etc...
  30.  
  31. Which seems good to me.
  32.  
  33. Cheers,  Andy.
  34. -- 
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  36. andyr@wizzy.com          W.Z.I. Consulting (719)635-6099               pgp-2.1
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