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FUT: lugnet.off-topic.debate
"Matthew Miller" <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message
news:slrnc385ha.8ka.mattdm@jadzia.bu.edu...
> Neb Okla <n_okla@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > This is just the kind of email spoofing that makes digital signatures a • good
> > idea.
>
> Or simply SPF. <http://spf.pobox.com/>
It's a little silly to say "Simply have all users convince their ISP to
change their email infrastructure". I'll use S/MIME until they perform that
upgrade. 8-)
> No encryption needed, and it happens automagically behind the scenes.
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> > Nowadays about 95% of email clients across a variety of OS's support • S/MIME
> > digital signatures. Verisign sells them for a yearly fee - but there • are at
> > least two providers that give them away for personal use.
>
> Or, GPG signatures are *entirely* free. Any decent mail client should
> support that.
Companies can set up their own PKI servers with S/MIME and generate their
own certs, so you don't have to pay Verisign et-al for everything.
GPG isn't as user friendly as S/MIME. You have to manually verify every
message and it puts a bunch of gibberish in the message body - just like
PGP.
Once again, you suggest a solution that is impractical for most users.
Is it really logical to suggest an obscure open-source solution that
requires a plugin when a perfectly viable solution is sitting on most
people's desktops right now just waiting to be used?
Of course, S/MIME is an open standard - which explains why it has been
implemented so widely - including in open source applications such as
Mozilla Thunderbird for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris (for example).
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