From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/26106 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dsg@mitre.org (David S. Goldberg) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Signature/encryption, what's the standard ? Date: 31 Oct 1999 22:46:01 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87iu3pwdsc.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035163376 17619 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:22:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:22:56 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA21395 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 22:46:25 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAB14396; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 21:46:23 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 31 Oct 1999 21:46:43 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA13894 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 21:46:32 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from linus.mitre.org (linus.mitre.org [129.83.10.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA21381 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 22:46:02 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from blackbird.mitre.org (blackbird [129.83.65.14]) by linus.mitre.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA03878 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 22:46:01 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from dsg@localhost) by blackbird.mitre.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA20907; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 22:46:01 -0500 (EST) Mail-Copies-To: never Original-To: The Gnus Mailing List X-Face: GUaHTH@nS>[7,ME@-gYZ4#Wl{z"99k@[[Y8AcP0x1paqu.,z9,XSV1WI>{q3f6^e5(zrit <4fV&VHhmE`uidRqtmG27;si9&r;#KSF~E#$%W8w(xdp)H4tW=\2XOk~3=@oGqqpj;m4xf Ow;y26396&,34@9#~4;@*S;E0cq"LM9N(us4P%F(Nxis'Vvfm9?KufH;:Q$dMa-QWGLR&K d0`LJZE8xb*>^yN>b]_NcU:E=Zn\1=#/(OS2 In-Reply-To: Florian Weimer's message of "30 Oct 1999 08:41:55 +0200" Original-Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070097 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97) XEmacs/21.1 (Biscayne) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26106 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26106 > AFAIK, S/MIME uses a X.509 certification hierarchy. Quite a few > people consider PGP's `web of trust' much more practical than a > strict tree-like hierarchy with a few root certification > authorities. There's nothing in any S/MIME implementation I've seen that prevents anyone from exchanging their own, locally generated, certs without benefit of verisign or any other authority. I'm one of those who considers the web of trust model not only more practical, but also more secure than the hierarchy for certain applications, personal communication being one of them (I trust my friends to tell me someone is legit before I trust verisign to do so) but once I have that trust, there's no reason I can't use S/MIME to handle the encryption part. -- Dave Goldberg Post: The Mitre Corporation\MS B325\202 Burlington Rd.\Bedford, MA 01730 Phone: 781-271-3887 Email: dsg@mitre.org