0, 1, or many standards and their impact (or not)

Eliot Lear <lear@xxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 03 Dec 2013 15:30:21 +0000



    On 12/3/13 12:46 PM, Phillip
      Hallam-Baker wrote:

    
            And twenty years later the market still hasn't decided
              between S/MIME and PGP.
            

    I agree with Jim that having two standards in this space has
    mattered not one bit.  There are many reasons why email simply isn't
    encrypted.  First, it's hard to get a key.  Second, those who are in
    a position to simply dole them out don't as it provides no value to
    them.  Third, there is no deployed directory infrastructure to find
    someone else's key.  Forth, if there was one, it would result in
    defeating of common anti-spam/anti-malware tools.

    
    Eliot