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Re: S/MIME with OpenSSL?
From: |
Adam Sjøgren |
Subject: |
Re: S/MIME with OpenSSL? |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Nov 2015 17:12:10 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Uwe writes:
> Did you try once to convince computer how shall I say illiterate to
> use encryption?
I learned a long time ago not to try and impose my preferences on other
computer users.
> operations S/MIME PGP
> Inst of software no; included yes
I think you have some hidden assumptions about what software is used
here? Don't both S/MIME and PGP use external tools in Gnus?
> Installation of plugin no; included yes
Again, you must be assuming something about the software being used -
Gnus has built in support for both, right?
> generation of keypair no; ask for a yes
> certificate
This seems to be a negative for S/MIME: it is easy to generate a PGP
key. How do you generate an S/MIME certificate?
> interchange of public simply send a sign yes interchange
> keys message
I have never received or sent an S/MIME message, so it's hard to judge
this one. Does it mean that every S/MIME message includes the public key
of the sender? What prevents you from doing that with PGP-signed messages?
I've set up Gnus/GnuPG to automatically fetch keys for every person I
see a signature from, so there is nothing manual for me to do here.
Best regards,
Adam
--
"Probabilistic algorithms don't appeal to me. (This Adam Sjøgren
is a question of aesthetics, not practicality.) So asjo@koldfront.dk
later, I figured out how to remove the probability
and turn it into a deterministic algorithm."
- S/MIME with OpenSSL?, Jens Lechtenboerger, 2015/11/08
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- Re: S/MIME with OpenSSL?, Adam Sjøgren, 2015/11/10
- Re: S/MIME with OpenSSL?, Uwe Brauer, 2015/11/11
- Re: S/MIME with OpenSSL?,
Adam Sjøgren <=
- Re: S/MIME with OpenSSL?, Uwe Brauer, 2015/11/12
- Re: S/MIME with OpenSSL?, Adam Sjøgren, 2015/11/12
- Re: S/MIME with OpenSSL?, Uwe Brauer, 2015/11/13
- Trust and public keys (was: S/MIME with OpenSSL?), Jens Lechtenboerger, 2015/11/14
- Re: Trust and public keys, Uwe Brauer, 2015/11/16
- Re: Trust and public keys, Jens Lechtenboerger, 2015/11/16
- Re: Trust and public keys, Uwe Brauer, 2015/11/18
- Re: Trust and public keys, Jens Lechtenboerger, 2015/11/19
- [smime and gpg] (was: Trust and public keys), Uwe Brauer, 2015/11/22
- Re: Trust and public keys, Uwe Brauer, 2015/11/16