diff --git a/test/corpora/README b/test/corpora/README
index c9a35fed..05ea386d 100644
--- a/test/corpora/README
+++ b/test/corpora/README
@@ -12,3 +12,8 @@ broken
 
 html
   The html corpus contains html parts
+
+crypto
+  The crypto corpus contains encrypted messages for testing.
+  It should probably also contain signed messages in the future.
+  Please add them!
diff --git a/test/corpora/crypto/simple-encrypted b/test/corpora/crypto/simple-encrypted
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6869972d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/corpora/crypto/simple-encrypted
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
+To: dkg@fifthhorseman.net
+Subject: encrypted message
+Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2016 08:34:56 -0400
+Message-ID: <simple-encrypted@crypto.notmuchmail.org>
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: multipart/encrypted; boundary="=-=-=";
+	protocol="application/pgp-encrypted"
+
+--=-=-=
+Content-Type: application/pgp-encrypted
+
+Version: 1
+
+--=-=-=
+Content-Type: application/octet-stream
+
+-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
+
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+dHgf56rXDWS73dzJ5EigevxLVMD3Xv8QEJBgMWb6yC+uR8ZdJ8h7hlE2lYyEg3Ch
+smqzcaYp2nKWw9JZQqubsMaeIgVu0exb4YE8g/qlUOL2mD64dXhnkJ68GGMmiEPJ
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+LhUNag0gMuNEbGR78XfWKpCbccEC1VLf9uUXze6yeuRXDuhfsvilKOH9MpaR9n+G
+JuYVAAobDc5wGOt5VGMka50ToaALrNt3FrWqni/0jqwqshEVKM3Kqzq6cSjh1TPf
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+cQGqSoZz0ugTSxnTlg0nuzFmG7ylC1cx3dlSrnfv+l1azwLAr58ptoYZ0mO+D+Fy
+bePpCGoFAPKi0cZ/4eFlLKL7uYPmGeEo5Ku2wXU/SXtPfl4vRxzvPXTJTvD06vIx
+Dh1P0ChAJtxUjGGY6xkCHMY0
+=frmz
+-----END PGP MESSAGE-----
+--=-=-=--