On Feb 6, 2013, at 1:53 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thank goodness you are in "the know".  Harry has beat me to the punch, but I 
> not only want to know how this is done, is it program specific?  If I 
> normally use Apple's mail and if I am using the digitally signed mail and 
> then use Gmail one day do the signatures cross over to the other account or 
> do I have to create these with each mail account I use?

S/MIME has been around for a long time and is on the way to becoming an IETF 
standard. It is not program-specific; any program that claims to support S/MIME 
should work with the standard certificates.

I usually get a separate certificate for each email account because it's easier 
to manage them that way and that's the way the free certificates are normally 
given out. I think the only other person on this list who uses S/MIME is Bill 
Rising. Bill, what do you do?

Many of my acquaintances and family members have certificates and we can send 
encrypted email to each other. Otherwise, any man in the middle could read our 
email, thereby exposing our nefarious cabal. With strong S/MIME encryption, I 
doubt even the NSA can read what we write.





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