On Mon, 7 Aug 2000 13:46:45 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
SL> Nick, if I might take a stab at this, I think when he said it taking
SL> up 6k that he might actually have meant that having it take up 6k is
SL> annoying. To me, that would be annoying to. What is even more
SL> annoying is that I can't /see/ why it is taking up 6k. No idea at
SL> all since "Show kludges" no longer shows the whole message and "save
SL> as..." doesn't save the message as is, either. I guess I could
SL> export it somewhere. Just did. E-Gads! Who the hell made that
SL> standard!? The consortium of DSL providers to get people off modems!
SL> Yeesh! 41 lines to sign a message!? PGP does it in *7*.
I see what you mean. I've looked at an exported specimen myself and
see that the raw format of the S/MIME signature is the same as PGP.
Why is it then that PGP signatures have to be shown as starkly as
they are now, instead of being hidden with an unobtrusive indicator
that it's PGP signed? It's not like the user actually *reads* the
PGP signature. Why display the thing in the message body. Yuk!
I much prefer how S/MIME signing is implemented in TB! compared to
PGP.
SL> PGP, GPG signatures are ok. But that travesty called S/MIME has got
SL> to go! 2870 bytes to sign something far less than that!?
Yeah, the signatures are too long. Do they really have to be that
long to maintain the desired standard of authentication?
SL> Lord, I hope not. PGP isn't bad because the signature is small
SL> compared to the body of most messages. S/MIME is larger than most
SL> messages. That puts it in a category worse than HTML mail.
:-) If you have PGP to use then yes, it does. HTML is plain useless
in the context of text only messages without special formatting.
Nothing beats the redundance of that. At least S/MIME serves an
added purpose.
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