On Nov 4, 2011, at 5:34 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > You know. S/MIME. The encryption protocol that's *actually* included in > every mail client, without needing something like a PGP/GPG plugin or 3rd > party app...
*sigh*. There are two flaws in your statements here. First, S/MIME is not SSL. S/MIME uses the same X.509 certificates as SSL but the protocols are quite different. Second, not "every mail client" supports S/MIME. MIME support is required as a foundation. Unix mail and Mailx don't have this. Rmail can be coerced into reading MIME attachments but it relies on an external decoder and lacks a MIME composer. Google Mail doesn't do S/MIME; it requires a browser add-on. Hotmail does not support S/MIME, either, last I knew. Apple's mail client for iPhone and iPad don't do S/MIME -- there are third party applications to handle the encrypted attachments. Android doesn't support S/MIME out of the box, either. On the other hand, BlackBerry has an S/MIME module for the enterprise server, a module required by the handset. Okay, yeah, I just spent 15 minutes on Google looking these up to prove a point. --Rich P. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
