[89319] in Cypherpunks
Re: S/MIME
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (? the Platypus {aka David Formosa})
Mon Nov 3 00:50:12 1997
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 16:14:46 +1100 (EST)
From: ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
To: Nobuki Nakatuji <bd1011@hotmail.com>
cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <19971103044957.24885.qmail@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Nobuki Nakatuji wrote:
> Is S/MIME secure than PGP ?
Its hard to tell. However PGP has a number of advangers over S/MIME,
it is better supported by cilents, PGP signtures are smaller then S/MIME
sigs. In addtion S/MIME sigs normaly have encoded in them a lot of
infomation about the user makeing it very difficalt to use via an anon
remailer.
Please excuse my spelling as I suffer from agraphia see the url in my header.
Never trust a country with more peaple then sheep.
Save the ABC Is $0.08 per day too much to pay? ex-net.scum and proud
I'm sorry but I just don't consider 'because its yucky' a convincing argument
