hi robert,
1) Wait for MIME-Tools or another object module for Perl or
similuar scripting language to have support for S/MIME
and send to your clients using their public X509 signatures.
(( Neat for anyone using Outlook Express 5 or Outlook 2000
as I think they can automate the decryption process on their
end ))
can you tell me something about s/mime? never really cared about it, because it seemed to be a microsoft-only-solution (never seen a client that has built-in s/mime support except outlook...) and i read somewhere about minor security, but that is time ago. maybe you can give me a good url or something to take me up-to-date again? :)
2) Use PGP.
3) Use GnuGP -- no patent worries to pay for and conforms to OpenPGP
http://www.gnupg.org
at the moment, i would *always* prefer the gpg-solution because of strong encryption, open source, no patent worries (as you say), and it is very simple to use within perl scripts as you can open gpg and read its output:
open (GPG, "gpg --some --nice --parameters|");
while (<GPG>) {
...
dunno how to work with s/mime, that's the problem.
cya, jonas.
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