CORRECTION: PGP Encryption (ASCII RADIX-64) Munging by Microsoft

From: Jay D. Dyson (jdysonat_private)
Date: Thu Jun 24 1999 - 09:39:42 PDT

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    Aleph:	Some minor corrections here to help clarify a few critical issues.
    	(Looks like I need to start drinking decaf...or get a new set of
    	proofreaders.)  ;)  Apologies for not catching these errors at
    	first release.
    
    On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Jay D. Dyson wrote:
    
    > 	HISTORY: I've been using PGP v2.x for years in conjunction with
    > many a mail program: Pine, Eudora, Netscape (v3.x Navigator, not v4.x
    > Communicator), and Elm.  In all that time, I never encountered a problem
    > with sending or receiving encrypted mail regardless of the Mail Transport
    > Agent (MTA) to which I've sent or received mail.
    
    	CORRECTION: Mail *User* Agent (MUA).  The problem was not with the
    Exchange Server but the Exchange client default configuration.
    
    > alternatively recommend that said users not send PGP encrypted messages in
    > ASCII RADIX-64 format to Outlook users, but instead encrypt them as binary
    > files and send them as attachments.  Fortunately, Outlook doesn't seem to
    > want to "interpret" attached binaries.
    
    	CORRECTION: The problem is only confirmed with MS Exchange.  I
    must have had Outlook on the brain after doing some tweezing with yet
    another trojan/worm/virus.  My bad.
    
    - -Jay
    
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