At 8:49 PM +0200 8/4/02, Jacob Palme wrote:
I am not a security expert and do not understand why.
Possible causes could be:
- Competing standards where unity is needed.
Not true for email. S/MIME has been built into most widely-used MUAs
for many years; almost no one uses it.
Not to be confused with PGP, the Other Standard. Which isn't built
into many MUAs but does have plugins for nearly all major MUAs. And
is used by some people -- it's certainly easier to use with a group
of people than S/MIME.
As an implementor, there isn't a simple choice of which to implement --
you have to implement both to cover cases of customers that prefer
one over the other.
-d