Re: Why do people fight about S/MIME vs. PGP rather than use MOSS?

> As far as I remember, MOSS is a MIMEisation of PEM.
> PEM is based on X.509 and X.500. PEM imposed a centric view of the securi=
> ty
> world (1 IPCA)
>
> So MOSS imply X.509 and then ASN.1 as S/MIME does.
Wrong.

MOSS supports lots of different ways of identifying the participants,
X.509, user/mail name, key,...  with different trust models.

You might want to read the specs - see rfc1848, section 4.

--Sandy Murphy