[imp] PGP/MIME vs OpenPGP

[A]

Thanks for the info; I currently use Thunderbird and enigmail to  
access my email and the imp web interface when on the road.

I have been in touch with hushmail support also, and they understand  
the issue and sent some info concerning this also:

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premiumsupport at hushmail.com wrote:

I have done a search and found this website that shows (technically)
what the difference is between PGP MIME and OPENPGP.

http://www.imc.org/smime-pgpmime.html

Hushmail Webmail simply does not support PGP MIME. For this I apologize.

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So, for my own contacts I plan on researching and trying to write a  
plugin or possibly a hook for IMP that will send non-PGP/MIME email to  
hushmail domains. So far this looks like it will me a MAJOR hack to  
get it to work, but I am going to try, and will certainly share.

If anyone has any pointers, experience or references for such an  
effort, I'd appreciate the insight.

Thanks
-- 
I prefer the privacy of encrypted email. My public key is attached.


Quoting Harakiri <harakiri_23 at yahoo.com>:

>
> --- On Fri, 11/14/08, A <admin at panamawebmasters.com> wrote:
>
>> From: A <admin at panamawebmasters.com>
>
>> I do not understand the difference between PGP/MIME and
>> OpenPGP; Where can I get specific details on the
>> differences?
>
> Download Thunderbird + Enigmail - add an attachment to your message,  
> try to encrypt the message - you will get a dialog how you would  
> like to encrypt the message.
>
> Basically, PGP/MIME is like S/MIME the whole message block gets  
> encrypted (excluding headers) in one process - the result is a  
> multipart message with one text body (info about pgp/mime  
> encryption) and the encrypted message itself as an attachment.
>
> PGP "Classic" or Partitioned format is, that you encrypt each  
> bodypart and each attachment separate, meaning if you add 3  
> attachments - you get 3 encrypted attachments, if you have only a  
> text message - only a text block is encrypted. The only advantage of  
> this is, that you can fetch headers of all body parts of a message  
> (like hushmail probably do) - and decrypt on the fly in the client -  
> when you use pgp/mime - you cannot know how many and which  
> attachment are encrypted.
>
>
>
>

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