"Seth Goodman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > S/MIME was intended to work with a certification authority (CA) model > based on a small number of universally trusted root CA's, while PGP > assumed a distributed web of trust model based on personal > relationships between individual users. There's no technical reason a > CA can't sign a PGP key, but this was not the intended mode of use. I > suggest the problem wasn't MS's inability to implement PGP (it's no > harder than S/MIME), but more likely they couldn't see a way to make > money from it. Instead, they built native S/MIME support into their > MUA's, built a certificate store into their operating system and > bought VeriSign.
Couple of points. There are lots of stuff MS does that don't make them money. Also, I don't believe they own VeriSign. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
