-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
It is not an issue of right/wrong. Rather, it is an issue of what
Actually, it is. You are wrong.
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 encryption and even let you use the same cert for SSL protected POP3. PGP, OTOH, only encrypts the message body, this is why it's
Ever heard of PGP/MIME? Look at RFC 2015.
popularity is reducing. In addition, even you agree that an X.509 PKI is easier to build. Maybe because of the reasons I give here.
Most of the encrypted traffic on the Internet is PGP traffic. Methinks you are a tad confused. __ 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. iD8DBQE5XPfIPYrxsgmsCmoRAmOPAJ9gaRntflX5w2G085BcArP9vexjUgCgzzK2 /fZGCAFP82LBsuCbUhaB97k= =Wpcp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----