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[NMLUG] e-mail and digital ID's (signing and encrypting)
On Thursday 23 August 2007 07:33:03 Aaron Birenboim wrote:
> Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> > If you are smarter and are doing OpenPGP:
> >
> > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2440.txt
> > http://www.gnupg.org/
> > ... etc ...
>
> Right on!
>
> Definitely, go with gnupg/OpenPGP.
> It is supported out-of-the-box on many non-MS mailers,
> like Thunderbird, and AFAIK, there is a plug-in you can
> get for Outlook.
>
> There are FREE keyservers!
> The web-of-trust keysigning procedure (if your client demands is)
> is at least as good as buying a cert. Probably better.
Yes, and despite that it works excellently in a decentralized manner, it
also still works very well in a hierarchical "corporate" environment, as
you can have a company signing key that signs all the keys for
employees--essentially the equivalent of being your own CA--except that you
can easily get peers (other businesses, customers, individuals, etc) to
sign it if you so desire.
That said, S/MIME isn't *too* bad. At least it's [sort of] (mostly)
standardized. Better than some proprietary Windows-only piece of junk
system. There are plenty of those out there.
--
Wesley J. Landaker <wjl at icecavern.net> <xmpp:wjl at icecavern.net>
OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
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