Am Montag, den 22.02.2016, 11:50 +0000 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan: > On Mon, 2016-02-22 at 09:22 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote: (...) > > > > Yes - S/MIME works by a "Trusted Third Party" issuing signed Email > > Certificates. The only verification done by someone like Comodo when > > they issue personal certificates is that the certificate is sent to > > the > > email address specified. The advantage of S/MIME is that you do not > > need to have verified knowledge of the sender's public key in order > > to > > verify the email - the public key is sent with the message and you > > trust the party that signed the key that it belongs to the person you > > think it does. The disadvantage is that you put all your trust into > > a > > third party - it is not unknown for the signing keys from these > > "trusted" bodies to go astray and to be abused or that someone has > > managed to acquire a signed key for a random email address. > > There have also been cases of the Certificate Authority (CA) issuing > genuine certificates to imposters. A famous case of Verisign giving out > several Microsoft certs a few years ago comes to mind. Such certs are > normally revoked when discovered, but revoking is another can of worms > in itself and doesn't work all that well.
So the best way is: Don't e-mail your secrets ;-) !!! Seems that the only rational use case for e-mail is letting the CIA or Homeland work for you (German staircase wit since we have data preservation. I guess yo all know it - and that should now be enough to make myself suspicious ;-) An Arab writes an e-mail to his son: „Dear son, I am old and cannot any longer work in the garden. I know you live far away in America, but could you please visit me and dig up the garden?“ On which the son writes back: „Dear father, we may not dig up the garden, because of the THING that lies there.“ On the next morning a whole troop of CIA agents appears and digs up the whole garden like crazy, finding nothing however. Whereupon the old man gets another mail from his son: „Well, it has been solved? That was the least I could do for you ; -) “ _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
