Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:05:40 +0200 | Subject | Re: Query: Patches break with Microsoft exchange server. | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> |
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On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 23:28, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 21:15 +0300, Mihai Donțu wrote: >> >> Wait. I don't think we're on the same page here. I'm talking about message >> signing (which does not require the receiving end to have any key - it's the >> same plain text e-mail with a blob after it) while you refer to actually >> encrypting the message. Mm? Or am I being extremely slow today? :-) > > Only when you assume that Exchange would pass signed messages without > corrupting them. It really is that broken.
Indeed. In my experience Exchange may - corrupt PGP signed email, causing the signature verification to fail, - send/forward all email in BASE64, causing it to be dropped by vger.kernel.org.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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