🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 17 May 2001 03:35:42 +0100, phil hunt <philh@comuno.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>[...]
>Proposed solution
>=================
>
>To make sending encrypted email easier, by getting the email user
>agent (MUA) to do the hard work. Define a standard in email
>headers for encryption; the purpose of this standard is to allow
>encrypted emails to be send almost completely automatically if the
>MUAs at each end support the standard.
>
>The standard defines two new headers, X-GPG-Key: and
>X-GPG-Fingerprint:. These contain the sender's public key and its
>associated fingerprint. The public key is sent radix-64 encoded,
>probably over multiple lines, 64 characters per X-GPG-Key: header,
>
>Compliant MUAs will, by default (overridable by the user) generate
>a public/private key pair and transmit the public key.
>
>When a compliant MUA sees an incoming email with the headers it
>makes a note of it. When the user sends an email to that email
>address, the MUA can encrypt it with the reciever's public key,
>so that only the receiver can read it.

I forgot to add that I think a good name for this system would 
be "herbivore". :-)


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