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Why would attachments be considered part of the body? Encrypt them before uploading them, and send the decrypting key in the body.
by orik 12y ago
Why would attachments be considered part of the body?
Encrypt them before uploading them, and send the decrypting key in the body.
- tlrobinson 12y agoBecause as far as the email protocol is concerned attachments are part of the body, just wrapped in a multipart MIME message along with text body. But Gmail itself may handle attachments differently.
- john2x 12y ago> But Gmail itself may handle attachments differently. AFAIK, Gmail handles attachments the same.
- tlrobinson 12y agoWhen it sends them, yes, but this is more what I was referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7842868 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7842868
- veeti 12y agoAny decent PGP plugin encrypts the attachments.
- dragonwriter 12y ago> Why would attachments be considered part of the body? Because if you look at the low-level structure of email, "attachments" are just parts of a body that is in multipart/mixed MIME type.
- marcosdumay 12y agoIf you look that low, the body isn't actually encrypted, just the parts of it that contain your data. Answering the GP, that varies from one implementation to another. Most clients encrypt attachments, but it looks like this one extension only encrypts the textarea contents.
- dragonwriter 12y agoRight, I was responding to the "why would attachments be considered part of the body?", not describing whether or not the Google implementation actually did treat them that way.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoRegardless of how e-mail protocol transfers attachments, GMail pre-uploads files to their servers when composing an e-mail, so if you want to encrypt them, you'll need to do it beforehand.