On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 19:10:28 +0200 (CET) Vadim Zeitlin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> RW> i have considerable interest in S/MIME, and had in the past
> considered
> RW> volunteering some of my time to assist with an implementation of it
> in
> RW> Mahogany.
> As you probably know, this would be great :-) Anyhow, I don't even think
> of implementing S/MIME support myself (nor really PGP/GPG currently) as
> it can only results in a disaster without understanding the issues
> related
> to it which I lack.
i'll take it as a task to start researching issues and commence preparation
of a plan for an S/MIME subproject. i'd think the thing to do is join the
mahogany developers list and continue discussions of the subject there.
> RW> the complexity is really all in the certificate handling.
>
> Even without certificates (i.e. PGP) there are still a lot of issues...
yes, fitting S/MIME into the MIME framework involved a lot of complication
for the designers, and complication for the implementors follows from that.
richard
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