Daiki Ueno <ueno@gnu.org> writes:

> After seeing Greg's report on S/MIME interoperability issue[1], I was
> thinking that it might be a good idea to add an S/MIME backend using NSS
> instead of gpgsm.

Sorry, I've had gnus paged out while dealing with other $DAYJOB issues.

> The rationale behind this are:
>
> - The certificate/key database could be shared with other major MUAs,
>   such as Evolution or Thunderbird.
>
> - For OpenPGP, GnuPG is the de-facto and there is no free alternative.
>   For S/MIME, however, NSS is more widely used, and I expect that it had
>   been tested better.
>
> What do people think?  I have a basic wrapper implementation[2] (though
> I might not have time to finish the integration of it into Gnus).
>
> Regards,
>
> Footnotes: 
> [1]  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/86677
>
> [2]  https://github.com/ueno/smime-nss-el

I think this would be great.  I realize nss may have its own issues, but
given that it exists and is in use, letting gnus use either seems like a
big step forward.