On Thu, 23 May 2002 10:34:22 -0400, Adam Shostack said:
Is there any Open source implementation of the protocol?
Well, there is a Free Software implementation called NewPG which provides a backend called gpgsm - very similar to gpg. It is currently under development but we already exchanged encrypted messages with proprietary implementations. This backend will eventually be included with gpg. It does not yet work for Windows but making it work won't be very difficult. Like gpg, gpgsm does not handle the MIME encapsulation because this is something a MUA can handle much better. We have support for KMail and Mutt in the works and adding it to Sylpheed will be easy. See: http://www.gnupg.org/aegypten/ I don't suggest to use S/MIME; however in some domains (law conforming digital signatures) there is currently no alternative for it. Salam-Shalom, Werner