Re: S/MIME prep work begins!

[Stuart Ballard]

Michael Str�der wrote:
> 
> Stuart Ballard wrote:
> >
> > Bob Lord wrote:
> > >
> > > 1. What aspects of S/MIME in Communicator 4.7 are confusing, hard to
> > > use, or deploy?  How might we improve them in this new version?
> >
> > I would like to see some support for S/MIME without certificates.
> 
> Do you mean that you can send solely encrypted e-mail without having
> an own certificate?

Yes, you can. In theory.

(You still need a key. You just don't need to have it certified by a
CA).

In practice every S/MIME client that I know of treats a mail without a
certification as if it were broken, bad, and probably dangerous. That's
what I'd like Mozilla to do better.

Stuart.