-- On 23 May 2002 at 0:24, Lucky Green wrote:
Tell me about it. PGP, GPG, and all its variants need to die before S/MIME will be able to break into the Open Source community, thus removing the last, but persistent, block to an instant increase in number of potential users of secure email by several orders of magnitude.
My impression is that S/MIME sucks big ones, because it commits one to a certificate system based on verisign or equivalent. I have been the verisign administrator at several companies, and there is no way that bird will fly. The verisign system is just barely tolerable for identifying authorized web sites and software. For identifying individuals, forget it. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG CXACCdVytBDJ5TDVZ2+IV9xP4c3QRpRxP+JoLBdL 4w44ULlzkb4jKH9nuzpy/Mlxl8CctM+OYZoZEhO8H