Re: [Endymail] Improvements to S/MIME

Wei Chuang <weihaw@google.com> Fri, 12 September 2014 18:51 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Endymail] Improvements to S/MIME
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On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no
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> Just a question... I heard someone say at one IETF conference that S/MIME
> is the only standard with more implementations than users. Why has it
> suffered that fate? Surely not because of the two problems you mention.


My two problems relate to privacy problems I see with S/MIME.   More to
your point, if you can make concrete the issues that cause lack of S/MIME
usage, those can be added to the list and the community will prioritize the
list by importance.

-Wei


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