0, 1, or many standards and their impact (or not)

[Eliot Lear <[e-mail]>]

On 12/3/13 12:46 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>
> And twenty years later the market still hasn't decided between S/MIME
> and PGP.
>

I agree with Jim that having two standards in this space has mattered
not one bit.  There are many reasons why email simply isn't encrypted. 
First, it's hard to get a key.  Second, those who are in a position to
simply dole them out don't as it provides no value to them.  Third,
there is no deployed directory infrastructure to find someone else's
key.  Forth, if there was one, it would result in defeating of common
anti-spam/anti-malware tools.

Eliot