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Re: adding gpg to src/gnu/dist

From: Bill Studenmund (wrstudennetbsd.org)
Date: Mon May 17 2004 - 19:17:04 CDT

On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 10:03:39AM +1000, Daniel Carosone wrote:
> In my work, I have used the "openssl smime *" commands, rather than
> working with the keys and formats quite so directly. There are
> several other reasons for this, but the major one is that it handles
> all of the container cert chain and encoding issues you discuss for
> you. It's been appropriate for my needs so far, but might be less
> directly applicable for this discussion (more below).

Once concern I have with smime (and this could be a misunderstanding) is
that it is MIME, after all, and as such makes things 7-bit clean, no? I
like the tar file container idea for the simple reason it's 8-bit clean.

Take care,

Bill

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