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Re: PGP & GPG compatibility
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Sun Jan 20 22:21:46 2002
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 16:02:07 +1300 (NZDT)
Message-ID: <200201210302.QAA69504@ruru.cs.auckland.ac.nz>
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: gnu@toad.com, warlord@MIT.EDU
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com, wprice@cyphers.net
John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com> writes:
>Note, however, that there are many things that OpenPGP doesn't do, making
>encrypted email still a pretty sophisticated thing to do. Brad Templeton has
>been kicking around some ideas on how to make zero-UI encryption work (with
>some small UI available for us experts who care more about our privacy than
>the average joe).
>
> http://www.templetons.com/brad/crypt.html
There are already a number of S/MIME gateways which do exactly this. The most
typical mode of operation is org-to-org, where all mail from an organisation is
routed through their corporate gateway anyway so it's a natural place to
perform this operation. It works reasonably well, and is completely
transparent to the end user (although org-to-org is rather easier to get going
than end-user-to-end-user). The S/MIME WG has been working on a whole string
of add-ons to basic S/MIME for handling this type of messaging, encrypted
mailing lists, and assorted other useful stuff.
Peter.
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