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Yes you can, but my point was that this is of no utility with GPG. Whereas with s/mime anyone can confirm that your email was signed (with many email clients),
by joshuak 13y ago
Yes you can, but my point was that this is of no utility with GPG. Whereas with s/mime anyone can confirm that your email was signed (with many email clients), so there is value to using s/mime prior to all your contacts also using it.
- claudius 13y ago> anyone can confirm that your email was signed (with many email clients), so there is value to using s/mime prior to all your contacts also using it. Provided that they trust the people handing out these certificates – with PGP, they need a chain of trust to your key to verify that it is you, with S/MIME, they have to trust random third parties. Or do I miss something and you mean something else that is possible with S/MIME but not PGP?
- joshuak 13y agoRight now if I send my Grandmother a signed email with s/mime she will see a little notice in her email client that says the message is signed and valid. If I send her an email with a PGP signature it will not. This is because just like her browser the CA is trusted by her OS.