Daniel Kahn Gillmor

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Inline PGP signatures considered harmful

2014109 points20 comments Security & Privacy details

People often suggest that inline PGP signatures in e-mail are somehow more compatible or more acceptable than using PGP/MIME . This is a mistake. Inline PGP signatures are prone to several failure modes, up to and including undetectable message tampering.