>>> "Adam" == Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk> writes:

> Uwe writes:
>> This list of people with whom I communicate in S/MIME contains 8
>> individuals, for opengpg there is just 1.

> The list of people I have communicated using PGP contains 3 individuals,
> for S/MIME the number is 0.

I presume these persons have some software knowledge.

Did you try once to convince computer how shall I say illiterate to use
encryption?

Here is short table to show why it is much *easier* to use S/MIME for
such people.


| operations                 | S/MIME                     | PGP             |
|----------------------------+----------------------------+-----------------|
| Inst of software           | no; included               | yes             |
| Installation of plugin     | no; included               | yes             |
| generation of keypair      | no; ask for a certificate  | yes             |
| interchange of public keys | simply send a sign message | yes interchange |