IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP> RE: Mandatory Delivery Method for

Re: IPP> RE: Mandatory Delivery Method for Notifications - Commen ts by April 15

From: Michael Sweet (mike@easysw.com)
Date: Mon Apr 01 2002 - 13:49:26 EST

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    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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