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Re: PGP, S/MIME + SSL cross-reference (Was: Dear RIPE: Please don't

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Fri Feb 10 16:16:37 2012

In-Reply-To: <20120210180106.GB80127@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:15:19 -0500
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> wrote:
> In a message written on Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 06:46:43PM +0100, Jeroen Mas=
sar wrote:
>> The problem still lies in the issue that most people, even on this very
>> list, do not use PGP or S/MIME. (and that there are two standards does
>> not help much there either ;)
>
> The problem space is still certificate management.

The problem space is that most folks won't catch the difference
between an email and link from ripe.net, ripe.org and ripe.ca. The
game is lost long before a purely technical version of validating the
message source becomes an issue.

Regards,
Bill Herrin



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