On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 08:30:16AM -0800, Paul Hoffman
wrote:
> >So PGP obviously has a usability and scalability
problem.
>
> Fully agree, and I would certainly extend that to
S/MIME as well.
>
One of the issues with S/MIME is that most mail clients have
no useful
support for self-signed keys. I want to be able to generate
a self-signed
key (ala PGP) and have my friends bind it mo my identity.
Nothing in the
message format prevents me from doing that, but the products
insist on
only trusting CAs, not keys. To generate keys for email
to/from my wife I
configured my and her Thunderbird to treat each of us as a
trusted CA :-(
--
/"\ ASCII RIBBON NOTICE: If
received in error,
\ / CAMPAIGN Victor Duchovni please destroy and
notify
X AGAINST IT Security, sender. Sender does not
waive
/ \ HTML MAIL Morgan Stanley confidentiality or
privilege,
and use is prohibited.
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