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chapters. In a nutshell, PGP Corporation puts a lot of work
into making inline encryption work properly and easily for
everyone, whereas GnuPG varies with different clients.
PGP/MIME was designed to address all these issues and
handle these cases without trouble.
PGP/MIME
If you’re a computer geek, you’ve probably seen the expres-
sion MIME type before. MIME, or Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extension, is a whole set of standards for encoding email.
PGP/MIME is the encoding method designed for OpenPGP
email. PGP/MIME gets around the problems with inline
encryption by treating absolutely everything as an attachment:
The encrypted message ...