It appears that Mark Milhollan via mailop <lists-mai...@milhollan.com> said: >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. ...
I'm with Dave, I don't see what difference it would make. Right now if you get a message from Gmail or Yahoo with a valid DKIM signature, you can be quite confident that it came from whichever Gmail or Yahoo user is in the From header. There is plenty of signed spam, and S/MIME signatures wouldn't make it any less spammy. R's, John _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
