[imp] OpenPGP compatibility?

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Eric Sheesley <esheesle at bcpl.net>:

> I am running the cvs version of imp 4.0(from a couple days ago).  Working
> great for the most part but I'm concerned about the pgp compatibility.  I
> mentioned in a previous post that .dat files were appearing with the
> encrypted data and signature in.  I got a free hushmail account and decided
> to give it a test.  Same results as using standard Outlook with PGP here.
> Hushmail touts being OpenPGP compliant yet it just shows the .dat files.
> Are they just lying or is something not working right?

It sounds like maybe they are OpenPGP complaint but they are not OpenPGP/MIME
compliant (RFC 3156).  I tend to think this is the case since IMP doesn't
attach a .dat file at all, nor does it label any of the parts in the
OpenPGP/MIME message with an .dat extension.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at curecanti.org]