@wiktor
Yes. Centralisation and the strong corporate flavour are my main issues with S/MIME. And for those reasons there's not been much of an urge to make free/low-cost certs available.
Guy's Post
In Reply To: this post
Likes: 0
Boosts: 0
Hashtags:
#email
#authentication
Mentions:
@@wiktor@metacode.biz
Comments
Displaying 0 of 1 comments
Wiktor Kwapisiewicz
In response to this postJust for the record: it’s still possible to get a free S/MIME cert nowadays e.g. https://www.actalis.com/s-mime-certificates — not affiliated, but checked it today and got a valid one, it’s still a bit of a hassle clicking through the forms there :-/
If it would be more convenient I guess regular people wouldn’t mind it being centralized. The same way as domain TLS certificate authorities operate now.
As for PGP, the current “schism” where GnuPG forked OpenPGP into their own, proprietary https://librepgp.org/ won’t help the interoperability, I’m afraid :(
@wiktor
@octade
I *really* appreciate your input here. The purpose of this thread is to venture into opportunities to improve traditional email in a way that doesn't suck (as @soatok also states in depth in his blog post that #email for socially working end-to-end confidentiality sucks). It is also not about other tools (like Signal, Bitmessage, Briar, ...).
This is about potential #cryptography for #authenticity or mon-repudiation use cases of email. PGP flavours, S/MIME or something else?
by Guy ;
Likes: 0
Replies: 1
Boosts: 0