-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 01:07:18 PDT, "Roeland M.J. Meyer" said:
It is not an issue of right/wrong. Rather, it is an issue of what is most usable to the most people. SSL certs are certainly more usable to many. PGP works with ancient CLI mailers and older GUI mailers. All modern GUI mailers support X.509 keys for message
All modern GUI? Odd.. I didn't add X.509 to Exmh yet. ;)
Eudora 4.3, which certainly qualifies as "modern GUI" doesn't seem to come with X.509 support, although it does come with a PGP plugin bundled. If there *is* X.509 support, feel free to point it at me.
I know Netscape seems to support pcks-7 signatures, and I'm unsure what Outlook supports.
As of yet, there is no PGP support in Netscape. Outlook and Outlook Express both have plugins for PGP.
Popularity reducing? Didn't I just see where the keyservers are seeing an additional 2,500 keys *per day*? Given the 1M keys they say they have currently, I work that out to 7.5% growth *PER MONTH*. Not bad for popularity reducing...
Yep. X.509 is definately better suited for certain situations, especially where certificate chaining is required. I cannot, however, envision that the X.509/-slash-S/MIME standards will ever become more popular for email usage. They are just too anti-user. __ L. Sassaman System Administrator | Technology Consultant | "Common sense is wrong." icq.. 10735603 | pgp.. finger://ns.quickie.net/rabbi | --Practical C Programming -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: OpenPGP Encrypted Email Preferred. iD8DBQE5XPmrPYrxsgmsCmoRArVUAKCjbSHdoA7pi1fp3zsFwk9eKs19gQCfV9iG K3RplHx1r4V8b30ElNkA5zc= =bAdp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----