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Re: [ietf-smtp] Public Key Look Up

2021-05-15 12:00:09
It appears that Matthias Leisi  <matthias(_at_)leisi(_dot_)net> said:
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Am 14.05.2021 um 22:28 schrieb John R Levine <johnl(_at_)taugh(_dot_)com>:

Right, hence my note about LE for S/MIME.

LE is quite clear they won‘t issue certs for S/MIME: 
https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/s-mime-certificates/153/2

That thread ended three years ago.  Last month, the IETF published RFC 8823 
which extends the ACME protocol
to issue S/MIME certificates.  I doubt that Alexey wrote it purely as an 
hypothetical exercise.

How can ietf-smtp help in paving the way for such an adoption?

Honestly, by not wasting time with diversions that are unlikely to do anything 
useful.

Pretty much every MUA other than webmail already has S/MIME support.  If a few 
of them let their users get
certs with one click, it might make a difference.

R's,
John

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