[Wolves] Whence the ASCII armoured gpg signatures?

[Alex Willmer]

On 5 January 2015 at 16:12, Ron Wellsted <ron at wellsted.org.uk> wrote:
> 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.

Ah, that explains it. Thanks for going to the effort and I'm glad that
MIME turned out to be better. The noise of ASCII armouring on mailing
lists has been a bugbear for years.
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