Hi and TGIF! :-) Nicholas commented in response to Robert Story:
#> Unless the client does the decryption locally... If gmail offered this #> option, I'm sure browser plugin writers would meet the challenge quickly.. # #That is no longer webmail. It would have serious usability problems. #And to further put the obvious, even that provides no protection for #incoming messages. Speaking of plugins, isn't that precisely what the (free for personal Gmail accounts) Penango plugin currently does for S/MIME in Gmail via Firefox or IE? See https://www.penango.com/ (no relationship to that outfit, except as a user of their free product on my personal gmail account from time to time) Gmail with Penango sure looks and feels like web email, just with S/MIME support bolted on... As to protection for incoming messages, if both sides have an S/MIME compatible email user agent, it would certainly seem as if they should be able to encrypt outgoing email, at least once they've exchanged keys via an initial signed email, no? Regards, and hope everyone has a nice weekend, Joe Disclaimer: all opinions strictly my own _______________________________________________ perpass mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/perpass
