Thank you all for the feedback and additional pointers. I will research
alternative ways to improve the adoption of encrypted (email) communication.
Best
Patrick
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On Saturday, May 15, 2021 10:29 PM, John Levine <johnl(_at_)taugh(_dot_)com>
wrote:
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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