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Re: S\MIME
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael C Taylor)
Thu Jan 16 09:48:33 1997
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 16:35:39 -0400 (AST)
From: Michael C Taylor <mctaylor@fractal.mta.ca>
To: weboland@globalkey.com
cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <9999999990000000@mailman.globalkey.com>
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On Wed, 15 Jan 1997 weboland@globalkey.com wrote:
> All:
> Is there a consensus or a general "feeling" that S\MIME will
> become the defacto standard for secure e-mail over the internet? Other
> options?
> Walt
S/MIME will attract the interest of corporations large enough to have
security officiers to handle CA duties. I think individuals and small
groups will continue to use PGP.
PGP has a large installed user base. PGP is free for personal use, and has
been around for a long time.
S/MIME clients are not common, and I do not know any a single free
implementation of S/MIME which hurts it user base.
Why do you think Qualcomm offers Eudora Light? To be nice? To keep a large
market base, they advertise on their web site 18 million users of Eudora
worldwide.
With Eudora plugins for PGP, PGPmail from PGP Inc, PGP scripts for UNIX,
DOS, Amiga, OS/2, etc, Viacrypt PGP for Windows, UNIX, and a bizillion
Windows shells.
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.
- -Michael Taylor PGP via finger, MIT's keyserver, www.mta.ca/~mctaylor/
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