On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Daniël W. Crompton < [email protected]> wrote:
> > how would that work? AKAIK S/MIME is public key cryptography, how would > you decrypt a message which is not encrypted with your public key? > Exactly. How does one decrypt when they don't hold the private key. That magic button would come in handy for a lot of folks. Jeff On 17 June 2013 20:17, Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:19 AM, ACROS Security Lists <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Valdis, > > > >> No, that's how to do it *hardline*. There's many in the > >> security industry that will explain to you that it's also > >> doing it *wrong*. Hint - the first time that HR sends out a > >> posting about a 3-day window next week to change your > >> insurance plan without penalty, signs it with something that > >> doesn't match the From:, and the help desk is deluged by > >> phone calls from employees who can't read the mail, the guy > >> who put "You shall not pass" in place will be starting a job hunt. > > > > If there was an industry standard specifying the you-shall-not-pass for > all web > > browsers, it wouldn't be the guy (developer) who put this roadblock in > place that > > would start a job hunt but someone within the company whose job was to > avoid the > > roadblock by making sure the cert that HR is using was okay. That would > happen a > > couple of times, and then not any more, as people have great capacity > for learning. > > > > .... > > ... If I get an encrypted > > message that was mistakenly not encrypted with my key, it would be very > productive to > > have a "Just decrypt anyway" button but we obviously don't have that. ... > A lot of folks would like to have that button ;) >
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