Hi phil,
On Friday 04/08/2000 at 11:47, you wrote:
> What does this mean for someone who doesn't have a key by Sept 1,
> 2000, or for those that have a key, but the year is now 2001?
If they don't get a key by then, they won't be able to get it signed
by Thawte. If they do have one, it will stay valid - at least for a
year I think.
In other words, if you don't have it signed by them yet then it's a
good idea to do so ASAP before it's too late :)
Don't know why they are going for S/MIME. It's very
Microsoft-flavoured (ie. bloated), especially in the fact that it
makes signed messages huge, whereas PGP sigs are quite small - and it
takes a lot of effort and money to get yourself a decent certificate
(ie with your name on and better than a measly 1024 bit RSA).
Far prefer PGP myself. Free, secure, no harder to use, much less
bloated.
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Using The Bat! 1.46 Beta/2 under Windows NT 5.0
Build 2195 Service Pack 1 on a PentiumII-400 with 128MB
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Any of my keys _under_ 3072 bit (usually on keyservers) don't work.
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