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Om 9:56 op donderdag 17 januari 2002, Dierk Haasis:
>> I prefer PGP to S/MIME, simply because S/MIME sends your complete
>> public key with every message as an attachment, which effectively turns
>> a 100 byte message to an 8K one.
> Actually I see this as the only plus of S/MIME - the recipient does
> not have to have a (complicated) programme to be installed.
Well, it is my one argument against HTML-mail as well (sorry! dead
horse!), you bore the recepient with stuff the recipient IMO should
minimally be bothered with, so it should be as small as possible. Same
argument against multiple-line signatures, ...
Since I really don't know how many programs support S/MIME, I can't say
anything relevant about it.
Cryptography is (alas) not 'easy stuff', I think one needs to grasp at
least the basic concepts. You have to conciously install PGP, so one haves
at least the manual installed in c:\progra~1\pgp. That's a plus :)
>> The only real 'drawback' to PGP that I can think of is that you have to
>> build up your own 'web of trust'. But OTOH, for the really paranoid, that
>> is just a big plus :)
> This "drawback" on the OTOH - as you pointed out - is the main
> advantage of PGP. It does not depend on a (dubious) central
> certificate ("trust") owner.
Which moves you in the 'paranoid' category :) SSL certificates (https://)
work the same way as S/MIME certificates, with a 'root' CA. There are a
few root CA's installed with most browsers. Don't you trust SSL-encrypted
traffic either? ;) Agreed, there are root CA's that have screwed up.
> There is a short essay by Phil Zimmermann on cryptography containing
> something about the differences between S/MIME (and similar schemes)
> and PGP. It is the first part of the manual. You can get it separately
> (i.e. here: http://www.write4u.de/Dateien/PGP_Crypto_English.pdf).
I cannot find any refereces to S/MIME (at least, not until the glossary
section) in that document, I'm sorry... Excellent read anyway, though.
(The one M where RTFM really applies? :)
Mrten.
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