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Re: S\MIME
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Richard)
Thu Jan 16 17:51:22 1997
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 13:46:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Patrick Richard <patr@xcert.com>
To: "Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>
cc: Michael C Taylor <mctaylor@fractal.mta.ca>, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <v02130502af03f1349e59@[10.0.2.15]>
On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Arnold G. Reinhold wrote:
> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 10:57:31 -0400
> From: Arnold G. Reinhold <reinhold@world.std.com>
> To: Michael C Taylor <mctaylor@fractal.mta.ca>
> Cc: cryptography@c2.net
> Subject: Re: S\MIME
>
> Michael Taylor wrote:
> >
> >I don't see how S/MIME can compete to become the de facto standard of the
> >"Internet community" at all until their is a free cross-plaform
> >(UNIX/Win/Mac at least) S/MIME client.
> >
>
> I would also point out the expense, complexity and privacy problems
> associated with obtaining a certificate. Even $6/yr for a meaningless class
> 4 Verisign cert will put people off. And has anyone read Verisign's
> agreement lately with the Certification Parctice Statement (CPS)? Not
> consumer friendly.
You don't need a cert from Verisign to use S/MIME, though.
Anyways, you can support both X.509 and PGP all at the same time if your
directory mutates the public key into both formats.
-Pat
>
Arnold Reinhold >
>
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