* Viktor Dukhovni <[email protected]>: > On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 10:21:15PM +0100, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: > > > Both, OPENPGPKEY and SMIMEA, carry the potential to increase wider usage of > > encryption. They offer a safe way for automated key distribution. All a > > sender > > will have to do is 'send' the message. Given appropriate software, MUA or > > MTA, > > will handle safe key retrieval and encrypt the message for any OPENPGPKEY > > and > > SMIMEA enabled recipient. > > Pick whichever is also supported by the sender (for which the sender > also has a key). If the sender has a key for both, I would have > historically gone with SMIME since more desktop clients support that.
ACK > However, things are changing, because smartphones have a new breed > of email clients, and I'm not sure which is more prevalent on iOS > and Android phones. Also even if SMIME is more widely understood, > it is prone to raise warnings with self-signed or private CA issued > keys. And we want to avoid such warnings. > > So it is not yet clear which is to be preferred, in practice we > should be so lucky as to have to choose. Most users have no keys > of either type. Are you saying I am worrying about a problem we don't have (yet)? p@rick -- [*] sys4 AG https://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein _______________________________________________ dane mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dane
