Quoting "Pierre U. Tagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Do you know of any S/MIME packages/installations for the Linux platform?
> Basically, two organizations want to use S/MIME for their e-mails and
> the
> cost for a commercial S/MIME software is astronomical.

There are three ways to do this:

1. Pine can do MIME enclosures, so the only thing to do is add
   security.  But then pgp4pine-1.75.tar.gz and gpg4pine-4.1.tar.bz2
   can take care of the security aspect.  Now each mail user will 
   need to have a public PGP key and so it is convenient to have a
   public key server.

2. How about if people want SSL-style digital certificates?  Then
   we need to use Netscape Communicator + SSL security (version 4.5?
   or higher).  Then everyone will need to get his own personal
   certificate from Verisign or Thawte or from a private Certificate
   Authority.  Netscape, of course can already handle MIME enclosures.
   Also we can use Linux or Windows or any OS that runs Netscape.

3. Use sendmail-8.11.0.Beta3.tar.gz.  This version of sendmail supports
   STARTTLS (transport layer security).  The only problem is that all
   the mail hosts must run this version of sendmail.  The advantage is
   that users can select their favorite MUA (Eudora, Pegasus, pine, etc.).

So there.  Take your pick.

**PMana


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