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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 [email protected] wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 01:07:18 PDT, "Roeland M.J. Meyer" said: > > It is not an issue of right/wrong. Rather, it is an issue of what > > is most usable to the most people. SSL certs are certainly more > > usable to many. PGP works with ancient CLI mailers and older GUI > > mailers. All modern GUI mailers support X.509 keys for message > > All modern GUI? Odd.. I didn't add X.509 to Exmh yet. ;) > > Eudora 4.3, which certainly qualifies as "modern GUI" doesn't seem to > come with X.509 support, although it does come with a PGP plugin bundled. > If there *is* X.509 support, feel free to point it at me. > > I know Netscape seems to support pcks-7 signatures, and I'm unsure what > Outlook supports. As of yet, there is no PGP support in Netscape. Outlook and Outlook Express both have plugins for PGP. > Popularity reducing? Didn't I just see where the keyservers are seeing > an additional 2,500 keys *per day*? Given the 1M keys they say they > have currently, I work that out to 7.5% growth *PER MONTH*. Not bad > for popularity reducing... Yep. X.509 is definately better suited for certain situations, especially where certificate chaining is required. I cannot, however, envision that the X.509/-slash-S/MIME standards will ever become more popular for email usage. They are just too anti-user. __ L. Sassaman System Administrator | Technology Consultant | "Common sense is wrong." icq.. 10735603 | pgp.. finger://ns.quickie.net/rabbi | --Practical C Programming -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: OpenPGP Encrypted Email Preferred. iD8DBQE5XPmrPYrxsgmsCmoRArVUAKCjbSHdoA7pi1fp3zsFwk9eKs19gQCfV9iG K3RplHx1r4V8b30ElNkA5zc= =bAdp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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