Re: [smime] S/MIME publishing mailing list

Peter Gutmann wrote:
> Russ Housley <housley(_at_)vigilsec(_dot_)com> writes:
>
> > We need to make it easier to get certificates, and then we need to make it
> > easier for others to find those certificates.  I'm willing to work on both of
> > these.
> What about Ian Grigg's GETSMIME proposal from many years ago?  It doesn't
> really get any simpler than that, and it's something that anyone (up to and
> including my cat, if she figures out email) can use:
>
> https://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000966.html
I wholeheartly agree with the comment below the article above.

Also I wouldn't want my MUA to automagically send any e-mail.
Surely this would be abused in some way.

The really sad fact is that e.g. Mozilla's S/MIME support was much better in
Netscape Communicator in 1998. Back then you could simply retrieve the e-mail
cert via LDAP. Anyone remember signed attribute 'userSMIMECertificate' which
the user could create and send himself?

Ciao, Michael.

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