[Wolves] Whence the ASCII armoured gpg signatures?

[Ron Wellsted]

On 05/01/15 16:07, Iain Cuthbertson wrote:
> It was so that thunderbird plays more nicely with GPG.
> 
> We actually tinkered with these things at one of the LUG meetings and
> found that setting it as a mime attachment worked best all around.
> 
> Iain
> 
> On 05/01/15 15:45, Dave Morley wrote:
>> On Mon, 05 Jan 2015 15:34:54 +0000
>> Peter Cannon <dick_turpin at archlinux.us> wrote:
>>
>>> On 05/01/15 14:33, Alex Willmer wrote:
>>>> Iain and Ron,
>>>>
>>>> I just noticed you're both signing emails with MIME encoding, as
>>>> opposed to inline ASCII armoured (------BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE ....).
>>>> At a glance Ron switch around April last year, and Iain Sept 2013.
>>>>
>>>> Was this a conscious decision you made? If so what motivated it?
>>>> Do you do the same for all your emails? Or do you still sometimes
>>>> use ASCII armoured?
>>>>
>>>> Inquisitively, Alex
>>>>
>>> Just so it's on record: I don't care either way. :-)
>>>
>> I'm guessing at different plugin/email client, I know Ron went distro
>> hopping but would most likely install thunderbird so I assume a
>> change to the default plugin maybe? As for Iain well it's Iain it's
>> probably a php thing or again an evolution/thunderbird plugin change :)

From memory, somebody at a LUG meeting commented that the gpg signature
was not being validated, but were seeing the raw characters as a part of
the message (either due to the MUA or an MTA somewhere).  As a result
there was about 30mins of continuous emails flying around between the
members and experimenting with various clients, webmail services, etc.
and we discovered that the most reliable way of using gpg was to use
MIME encoding.

IIRC, we found that with MIME, most webmail services and clients would
handle the MIME encoding correctly, whereas the inline version was often
presented in it's raw form without means of validation.

-- 
Ron Wellsted
ron at wellsted.org.uk http://www.wellsted.org.uk
Call Sign: M0RNW, Linux Counter No. 202120

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