>> "MFPA" == MFPA <[email protected]> writes: Hi > Hi > On Monday 4 November 2013 at 10:43:43 PM, in > <mid:[email protected]>, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>> - from my own experience I am convinced that smime
>> is much easier than gpg[2] for reasons I am not
>> going to repeat here. (I got 7 out of 10 of my
>> friends/colleagues to use smime, but 0 of 10 to
>> use gpg.)
> Depending on the software people are using. I'm willing to accept
> that there are probably more people for whom S/MIME is easier to
> use.
Well take for example iOs: using pgp is a sort of a nightmare.
The reasons why I think smime is easier to use for the average user are:
smime is already installed in most MUA (so no additional software+plugin)
keypairs are generated and signed by the "trust center".
Public keys are automatically embedded in the signatures.
> The email app I am using to write this message can (almost
> trivially) generate and use self-signed certificates for the email
> accounts it has configured. The difficulty is getting other people
> to persuade their MUA to accept them.
Aha I see you use the BAT, an email program I have not seen in use, for
almost a decade.
Good and bad news. Gpgsm allowed my to use your public keys after having
fireing up a series of questions, iOs also, (if you don't mind I send
you to test messages later privately) However thunderbird refuses to
use yoru public key claiming it cannot be trusted. So I am afraid
the issue is to
persuade the not only the people but also the software.
> I think I mentioned in one of my other postings that I was using
> hyperbole to make my point. I'm not quite _that_ paranoid, but I
> believe in exercising a healthy skepticism.
Ok I have seen this now.
regards
Uwe
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