Corey Edwards wrote:
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 20:45 -0600, Wade Preston Shearer wrote:That's not my understanding. I thought that the format of the digital signature was a open standard and that the only reason it didn't work with Outlook was because nothing that is a industry standard does. Are the digital email signatures that Thawte provides not a common format? I thought that most decent email clients understood them. No?I see. So one has to have a proprietary extension to either Apple Mail or Outlook from Thawte to use this? Sounds rather useless to me.It's an S/MIME signed message and it works fine in Evolution. Shows up just the same as a PGP signed message and in fact that's what I assumed it was before viewing the details. Why have one standard when we could have two for twice the price?
S/MIME was specifically designed for email, using asymmetric encryption and Certificate Authorities (verisign, thawte, etc), attempting to use very similar technology to SSL and TLS, whereas PGP sprung up from the open source community to encrypt stuff, and was later added into email as a nifty way to handle email encryption.
Choose whichever (or both) suite your needs. I prefer the method that all the major email clients already understand, due to who I email in the course of business. Your mileage may vary.
BTW, are any of the PLUGers in the thawte web of trust and can sign off on the other members? If not, it may be worth getting a few who can do it.
-Steve
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