[openpgp] Re: Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-gall agher-email-invisible-signatures-00.txt

Andrew Gallagher <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.openpgp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8 May 2025, at 18:06, Steffen Nurpmeso <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> (And moreover my real problem
> with the WG topic as such is that the public key cannot simply be
> extracted and saved and thereafter used, which one gets for free
> with S/MIME.  Maybe now with Sig: there will be a Sig: covered
> PKey: that can be used to verify Sig: as well as be saved?  That
> is cool.  With multipart/signed one needs to attach the key and
> then sign the whole thing, which makes for several parts which
> MUAs potentially can misunderstand.  Shall there be any.)

That’s what the autocrypt header is for. :-) It doesn’t matter whether the autocrypt header is signed over, because you can verify that the key made the signature.

A
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