Re: 8bit mime support? (linked to thunderbird issue)

Werner Koch via Gnupg-devel <[email protected]> Wed, 30 Jul 2025 15:05:29 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.devel
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On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 22:02, JL said:

> I wanted to open a ticket on GPGME because thunderbird team says they
> can't encode email using 8bit mime because of GPGME not handling

TB is again using GPGME?  Did they finally drop their own implementation 
and turned back to Enigmail or made the (gpgme based) optional GnuPG
support finally working?

We encode TB of binary data using gpgme without any problems.  So what
is this about?  Your are using the legacy in-line format for signed PGP
messages?  *Stop doing this!* Use PGP/MIME - this is the only sane way
to sign messages since the mid 90ies.  And you won't run into any
encoding problems because MIME (e.g. its 8 bit support) does this for
you.  MIME is the right layer for encoding stuff.  *PGP cares about
signing and encryption - another layer on top of it.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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