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Re: three questions



On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 06:55:51AM +0100, Kai Raven wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i'm using Mixminion together with my MUA Sylpheed-Claws and GnuPG over a
> script. Among other things, the script encrypts the body with the recipient's
> public key pgp/inline for recipients without SURBs/Mixminion.
> But in a received message, the line at the beginning and the end of the GnuPG
> block got the additional "- ":
> 
> -----BEGIN TYPE III ANONYMOUS MESSAGE-----
> Message-type: plaintext
> 
> - -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
> - -----END PGP MESSAGE-----
> -----END TYPE III ANONYMOUS MESSAGE-----
> 
> So, gpg resp. the gpg plugin of my MUA can not detect valid openpgp data
> or recognize the message as a pgp/inlined message.
> Is it possible, that Mixminion avoids the two signs?

This is the right way to quote OpenPGP-style messages inside other
OpenPGP-style messages.  You should be able to decode it with
"mixminion decode".

> I can see, that no Mixminion message delivers Content-Type: and
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: headers. That is not necessary normally,
> but with special characters like german umlauts. With Mixmaster i
> can inject headers for Content-Type and Content-Transfer-Encoding -
> is it planned, that a user can inject headers in such a way?

Yes.  This is in the TODO, I believe.

> Third & last:
> What is a "not recommended" mix? Is it a mix, which is not reliable enough or
> runs on a Windows machine?

It is a mix that the directory server believes to be unreliable.  This
testing may get more sophisticated in the future.

yrs,
-- 
Nick Mathewson

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