McDonald, Ira wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>> The IETF could eliminate SMTP over TLS (RFC 3207), because it's
> hop-by-hop security (only works well _within_ an enterprise
> network, which is of course one of the best IPP environments).
>> But both S/MIME v3 and OpenPGP are recent and Proposed Std.
> Do you know if OpenPGP is any more common in infrastructure
> and clients than S/MIME? Annecdotally, the IETF Registrar
> (for conferences), the RFC Editor and others regularly post
> their OpenPGP public keys on their Web pages, but I don't
> see S/MIME keys usually.
> ...
Sadly, I know of very few people that use OpenPGP, GNUpg, S/MIME,
etc. Part of the problem, of course, is that very few email programs
support them, and the only commercial offering from Network Solutions
is being discontinued...
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