Re: PGP spoof decrypted output?

From: Benjamin Elijah Griffin (bgriffinat_private)
Date: Mon Jun 10 2002 - 11:58:00 PDT

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Olaf Kirch <okirat_private> wrote:
> Rich Henning wrote:
> > Your "spoof" was displayed as plain text and not highlighted
> All mutt versions I've tested will happily display escape sequences,
> as in [44m[37mfoo![0m[43mbar![0m[41mbaz![0m

As did mailx when I read that. I think I am going to fix my copy not
to do that anymore.

> It's a bad idea to display the signature verification status inline,
> intermixed with the message body itself. And don't tell me people
> always check the time and date displayed by mutt... :)

If you can include escape sequences, and know about waht terminal
they have (how many people don't use vt100 compatible terminals for
their Unix shells?) then, presumably, you can re-write any part of
the terminal window by embedding the right sequences.

Benjamin

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