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Re: PGP & GPG compatibility
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Sun Feb 10 23:47:13 2002
From: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
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Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 23:28:04 -0500 (EST)
To: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
In-Reply-To: <20020209223304.B17753-100000@pakastelohi.cypherpunks.to>
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Lucky Green writes:
> On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Russell Nelson wrote:
> > I think the only worthwhile way forward is to create a
> > cryptographic email standard de novo, which is free of export,
> > trademark, and patent problems.
>
> I believe such a standard already exists. It is called S/MIME. Best of
> all, this email encryption standard is supported out-of-the-box by the
> overwhelming majority of deployed MUA's in the world.
Well, one of the things that PGP/GPG/OpenPGP got right is the web of
trust model. Given that model, there is nothing preventing someone
from imposing a certificate authority on top of that web. On the
other hand, I know of know way to make S/MIME work without a
certificate from an authority.
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