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Re: [smime] S/MIME publishing mailing list

2015-01-25 02:26:04
Michael:

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?

When the S/MIME specifications were developed, LDAP was expected to be the main 
way that certificates get distributed.  That part just never happened....

Russ

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