Ben Bucksch wrote:
>
> Stuart Ballard wrote:
>
> >Michael Str�der wrote:
> >
> >>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).
> >
> I think that the term "certificate" in the S/MIME world is the
> equvivalent to the term "key" in the PGP world and the S/MIME-"key"
> matches the PGP-"subkey". Somebody correct me, if that's wrong.
Well, when writing an e-mail you might already have the recipient's
certificate containing his public key. Theoretically you could
encrypt (not sign!) e-mail sent to this recipient without having an
own key pair (certificate installed under "Yours"). This is not
allowed in Communicator 4.x.
I felt that having the possibility to encrypt an e-mail with the
public-key of the recipient without mandating the sender to have a
certificate could be handy in some workflows.
Ciao, Michael.
