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mml secure mode should copy headers to inside the cryptographic payload

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg <at> fifthhorseman.net>
Cc: 35617 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35617: mml secure mode should copy headers to inside the cryptographic payload
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 08:09:23 +0200

Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg <at> fifthhorseman.net> writes:

> It would be great if those preparations were to copy all the headers
> from *outside* of the cryptographic protections (the "cryptographic
> envelope") to the top-level part *inside* the cryptographic envelope, so
> that they're covered by the cryptographic protections.

You mean repeat all the headers in the body of the message?

Is there an RFC for stashing headers in the body of messages and using
those instead of the real headers when reading?  Because if not, this
just sounds like it's going to be pretty confusing.

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