Don't forget that the web-of-trust of OpenPGP is really a citizen approach and you don't have to rely on a specific entity. ISOC should organize more keysigning party ;-) (ok some at IETF) adulau On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Franck Martin wrote: > This is called PGP and S/MIME. Both are valid IETF RFC. > > >From an industry point of view, S/MIME seems to be the one that will survive > in the long run, because it is implemented in nearly all mail clients and > follows the certificates used in SSL/TLS which is widely adopted (IPSec to > name only one). > > However, none of them is widely implemented for e-mail purposes because of > problems to build a global PKI (in short). I still haven't found a company > that will give/sell me a certificate that allows me to sign my > organisational e-mails certificates. ISOC is working on it... > > Cheers. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Gary Lawrence Murphy [mailto:garym@canada.com] > > Sent: Friday, 25 October 2002 11:19 > > To: Franck Martin > > Cc: 'TOMSON ERIC'; 'ietf@ietf.org'; 'isdf@isoc.org' > > Subject: Re: [isdf] RE: Palladium (TCP/MS) > > > > > Isn't that PGP? > > > _______________________________________________ > Isdf mailing list > Isdf@isoc.org > http://www.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/isdf > > > -- -- Alexandre Dulaunoy -- http://www.foo.be/ -- http://pgp.ael.be:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x44E6CBCD "People who fight may lose.People who do not fight have already lost." Bertolt Brecht