<rant>
I'm all for the use of PKI to solve the world's problems... but...
the fact is that the current implementations of S/MIME in off the
shelf email products is worse than any implementation I've ever seen.
Please support that accusation with facts.
Netscape, Microsoft and Lotus have interoperated for at least five
years. If you have evidence of incompatibility then please state
the errors so they can get fixed.
There may be some problems with the products of some of the self
styled 'PKI product vendors', some of whom insisted on using obscure
features. However there has never been a problem amongst the
major application vendors that did not get addressed swiftly
once identified.
PKI works fine, just stay clear of X.500 and LDAP.
Phill
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature