On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 9:27 PM, Peter Gutmann <pgut...@cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> Phillip Hallam-Baker <ph...@hallambaker.com> writes: > > >In fact there is much more use of S/MIME for authentication than for > >confidentiality. > > And there is much more use of hovercraft than monorails. > > Given that the use of S/MIME is essentially nonexistent outside of a few > government and large corporate orgs where people can be ordered to use it > or > face disciplinary action (and where the mgt. realises that actually > enforcing > this would result in either no workforce left or a complete shutdown of > email, > they fix it by reinventing store-and-forward STARTTLS using S/MIME > gateways), > where does the data to support this come from? Just wondering... is there > really significant use of S/MIME (meaning signed email, not CMS for EDI or > something similar) signed messages, outside of the STARTTLS-equivalent? > Where? By whom? > The number of S/MIME certs enrolled is roughly two million which is roughly the same as the number of keys enrolled in key servers. Neither application has been impressive in terms of deployment.
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