RE: PKI and S/MIME

"Blake Ramsdell" <blake@brutesquadlabs.com> Thu, 14 August 2003 21:58 UTC

From: Blake Ramsdell <blake@brutesquadlabs.com>
To: 'Steve Hole' <steve.hole@messagingdirect.com>
Cc: ietf-smime@imc.org
Subject: RE: PKI and S/MIME
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 14:25:04 -0700
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Hole [mailto:steve.hole@messagingdirect.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 10:42 AM
> To: Blake Ramsdell
> Cc: ietf-smime@imc.org
> Subject: RE: PKI and S/MIME
> 
> 2. Client support.   Basically this means that Outlook, 
> Outlook Express, 
> Netscape (and down the list) of clients have to support it.   
> It means a 
> CSP for the Windows twins and a module in the new Netscape/Mozilla 
> security API.
> 
> Of the two, the second is the hardest.   Policy, usage and 
> deployment of 
> S/MIME and PKI is very much shaped by the implementation of 
> the clients.  
> Any changes have to propogate through the clients to be useful.

There is no miracle that I can see that wouldn't require modifying the
clients, so we're already signed up for this regardless of what
direction we might go in, I think.

Blake

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