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Re: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Victor Duchovni)
Fri Feb 24 14:33:46 2006
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Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:09:51 -0500
From: Victor Duchovni <Victor.Duchovni@MorganStanley.com>
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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 :-(
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