[doseta-discuss] MIMEAUTH instead of S/MIME or PGP

[Murray S. Kucherawy]

On a different list I mentioned preparing to code up DOSETA to do MIME-specific part signing (see the MIMEAUTH draft) as an experiment.  Some feedback I got pointed out that MUAs have been supporting S/MIME and PGP for a long time now, though those modules are largely unused.  So the obvious question, then, is why do we need a new mechanism?

I'm in support of DOSETA and MIMEAUTH (and DKIM and its other expected offshoots), but I imagine this question will come up in future working groups and we'll need a solid answer.

My own first thought is that it's simply less intrusive in terms of having to reformat an existing object into a multipart object, but I don't know if people will find that to be a good argument or not.

-MSK
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