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Re: S/MIME with OpenSSL?
From: |
Uwe Brauer |
Subject: |
Re: S/MIME with OpenSSL? |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Nov 2015 16:42:31 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>> "Jens" == Jens Lechtenboerger <jens.lechtenboerger@fsfe.org> writes:
> Hi there,
> Currently, openssl is preferred over epg (gpgsm), via
> (defcustom mml-smime-use (if (featurep 'epg) 'epg 'openssl))
> in mml-smime.el. However, epg does not get loaded on its own even if it
> is present. Thus, users need to set mml-smime-use or require epg in
> their ~/.emacs, but the manual does not mention gpgsm at all.
> I plan to change this to prefer epg by default (and to document and
> recommend gpgsm).
> What’s your opinion?
I agree completely.
> Best wishes
> Jens
> P.S. I’d like to clarify that I recommend OpenPGP, not S/MIME.
> Still, S/MIME is better than plaintext.
The problem is that openpgp, in my experience, much more difficult to
install and to use than S/MIME. I can provide a list why this is so.
This list of people with whom I communicate in S/MIME contains 8
individuals, for opengpg there is just 1.