On 02/28/2011 02:56 PM, Jameson Rollins wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:59:54 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> wrote: >> But: what does the "signed" tag mean? i wouldn't want to necessarily >> conflate these four ideas: > > These are good points, Daniel. However, I had actually just been > thinking of something much simpler, along the lines of just tagging > "signed" any message with a "multipart/signed" part, and "encrypted" any > message with a "multipart/encrypted" part. this is a fair answer to my questions, not an evasion -- you're selecting level 0 in both tracks, which is not a bad thing (it's certainly simpler to get right!) The outstanding question in my mind is whether those tags could be mistaken by a naïve user for meaning one of the other concepts. Is there a way to name the tags to minimize that kind of confusion? --dkg