Michael,
Thanx for the answer.
I guess this option was introduced to be able to use your "electronic ED-Card"
from anywhere and make the mail-system to be regarded as "transport"
in the same way as SSL.
The same could be valid for mobile-phones and PKI as well.
I.e. the phone-number is just an identified but anyway "bearer".
Or for e-business where the org-cert contains a DUNS-number which
is more important than mail-address. Lets say a portal with buyers
using the same domain.
But it does get a little bit weird.
Anders
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Ströder" <michael(_at_)stroeder(_dot_)com>
To: "Anders Rundgren" <anders(_dot_)rundgren(_at_)telia(_dot_)com>
Cc: <ietf-smime(_at_)imc(_dot_)org>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 15:47
Subject: Re: S/MIME 3 Clients - Are there such?
Anders Rundgren wrote:
In S/MIME V3 e-mail address is optional.
(Sigh!)
That's good.
Nope.
But, are there any mail-clients that supports certs w.o. mail-addresses?
Yes. I saw one made by SSE. But it will be a pain in the ass to
teach Joe Average user to assign the right certificates to the right
person.
Ciao, Michael.