Our customer (a german bank) uses lotus notes. We are implementing an smime
plugin right now. A couple days ago some representatives have been at a general
german bank conference. At that conference they discussed with other banks
secure email implementations. At the conference many banks argumented pro PGP
and said that PGP would be better than SMIME. Because our customer doesn´t want
to swim against the stream it now tryes to do some convincing work pro SMIME.
Therefore I was looking for the difference between SMIME and PGP.
Your urls helped in the way that they provide a relyable source for statements
pro and against one of those two methods. As well I was struggling to much in
detailed differences. I missed the big picture or better to say I didn´t have
some relyable sources for confirming my thoughts.
In my opinion (as far as I have red), SMIME will become the major standard
because of its compliance with PKI components and the support of major standards
as X.509v3 and PKCS (which isn´t a standard but adopted mainly). As well I
believe the incompatibility between SMIME and PGP will work against PGP.
Would you agree on that?
"Enzo Michelangeli" <em(_at_)who(_dot_)net> on 05.11.98 09:59:36
To: Stefan Salzmann/HAM/Lotus(_at_)LOTUSINT
cc:
Subject: Re: The URLs you gave me are fantastic, its exactly what I need!!
Thanks once again <eom>
-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan_Salzmann/HAM/Lotus(_at_)lotus(_dot_)com
<Stefan_Salzmann/HAM/Lotus(_at_)lotus(_dot_)com>
To: em(_at_)who(_dot_)net <em(_at_)who(_dot_)net>
Date: Thursday, November 05, 1998 3:56 PM
Subject: The URLs you gave me are fantastic, its exactly what I need!!
Thanks once again <eom>
You are welcome, but remember that the S/MIME agents available on the market
_now_ (like Netscape Messenger and Outlook Express) are complied with the
v.2 only. I'm not sure about OpenPGP, but it is possible that the current
versions of PGP (6.0 has just arrived to market) ane not yet fully compliant
with the OpenPGP Internet drafts.
Cheers --
Enzo