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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Problem with passphrase entry
From:       Marc Mutz <mutz () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-07-28 16:01:05
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On Sunday 28 July 2002 17:43, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
<snip>
> Hmm, the reason for this is most likely that some MTA converted the
> 8-bit character ö (0xF6) to the 7-bit character v (0x76) by simply
> ignoring the 8th bit.
>
> It's obivously a bad idea that the signed data was transmitted with
> cte 8bit. Did you configure KMail to use 8-bit (Configure
> KMail...->Network ->Sending->Message property)?
>
> If yes, then you should select "Quoted printable".
>
> If no, then this is just another Aegypten bug.
>
> Signed data should IMO always be QP-encoded to prevent the above
> problem. Or would this cause interoperability problems with the other
> Sphinx compliant programs? Karl-Heinz?
<snip>

It _is_ a bug in Aegytpen. The first mp/signed child part MUST always be 
7bit/qp/b64, ie. in the 7bit domain. See rfc3152.

Marc

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