On Mon, 12 Feb 2024, Dave Crocker wrote:
On 2/12/2024 4:37 PM, Mark Milhollan via mailop wrote:
On Mon, 12 Feb 2024, Dave Crocker wrote:
1. S/MIME has been around for 25 years. While it has gained
respectable amounts of implementation in MUAs, it has achieved use
only in specialized environments.
Google could greatly accelerate its uptake by automatically providing every
freemail account with a certificate (DV cert style, i.e., without a
fullname) and adding it and a signature to every message, and an indicator
on messages received.
Certificates are not magic symbols of safety.
I never said they were. I said, paraphrasing though I see I should have
been explicit, that Google could increase the number of people using
S/MIME though not any additional MUAs since theirs already has S/MIME
support though different. If only Gmail did it for their freemail that
could be called just 1 more specialized environment but it might drive
others to implement it breaking a barrier. Haven't they done similar
for TLS transport since otherwise messages get a "bad" indicator, or did
their effort really do nothing to help increase transport security?
Of all of email's problem's, the most intractable is the widespread and
continuing insistence that its problems can be solved simply.
I only said it might simply increase the level of use, perhaps
dramatically, not that it solved anything.
/mark
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