Re: [cobalt-developers] PGP installation and config with SSL

["Robert G. Fisher" <rfisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 09:41:59AM +0000, Jonas Pasche wrote:
> 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? :)

Honestly, I'm not overly familiar with S/MIME but have seen it mentioned
a few times.  It uses the X.509 public key infrastructure so I would
hope other MUA vendors would develop support for it.

As for a few references, check out RFCs 2632, 2633, and 2634 to 
see how it is developed.  You can find all those at the IETF site:

	http://www.ietf.org/rfc2632.txt	( V3 Certificate Handling  )
	http://www.ietf.org/rfc2633.txt	( V3 Message Specification )
	http://www.ietf.org/rfc2634.txt	( Enhanced Security Services )

Last check on CPAN's site states that S/MIME is still on the 'todo'
list for the MIME-Tools package however.

Also not clear if this is a MS protocol -- not familiar with this
'Worldtalk' or Blake Ramsdell -- although do notice the address lists
Redmond.  Oh well, in any event -- integrating S/MIME into Outlook
is one of the few things MS has done that doesn't leave me with a
bad aftertaste (least not yet :).

> 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:

Well then, I believe you found your solution -- use what works for you.
;-)

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