Lucky Green writes: > On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Russell Nelson wrote: > > I think the only worthwhile way forward is to create a > > cryptographic email standard de novo, which is free of export, > > trademark, and patent problems. > > I believe such a standard already exists. It is called S/MIME. Best of > all, this email encryption standard is supported out-of-the-box by the > overwhelming majority of deployed MUA's in the world.
Well, one of the things that PGP/GPG/OpenPGP got right is the web of trust model. Given that model, there is nothing preventing someone from imposing a certificate authority on top of that web. On the other hand, I know of know way to make S/MIME work without a certificate from an authority. -- -russ nelson http://russnelson.com | Crypto without a threat Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | model is like cookies 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | without milk. Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
