[67841] in Cypherpunks
Re: pgp, edi, s/mime
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Loewenstern)
Fri Oct 11 06:38:48 1996
From: Andrew Loewenstern <andrew_loewenstern@il.us.swissbank.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 96 11:09:22 -0500
To: Raph Levien <raph@cs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Raph Levien writes:
> In sum, S/MIME leaves PGP in the dust, both techically and as
> a market force.
But does S/MIME still leave important sender and recipient information in the clear?
True, PGP is four years old and isn't as up-to-date anymore, but PGP 3.0 is
supposed to have an important feature (although we will have to wait a year
for it): it is unencumbered by patents.
andrew
