crypto flaw in secure mail standards

[Ian BROWN]

>The right way to send encrypted mail is to
>create a mail message, encrypt it headers and all, and include that in a
>mail message of type multipart/alternative, with the alternative being a
>text message saying 'this mail is encrypted'.

Ned Freed suggested something along these lines on the OpenPGP working group 
list in 1998, but I don't know if anyone has implemented it :(

http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg01941.html
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