> 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?
OTH, PGP 6.5.1.i is a 8.1mb download (i just did) and needs 15mb of hard disk
space ...
a S/MIME certificate is a couple of 100 bytes and just imports into the address
book.
just sayin' ... it all depends on wether you got disk space or bandwidth to
spare ;-)
--
Rob
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