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Or just use S/MIME which is baked into most email clients? Of course, handing out keys is an issue, but in the world of social media why not just attach one's

Or just use S/MIME which is baked into most email clients? Of course, handing out keys is an issue, but in the world of social media why not just attach one's key to one's public profile? Facebook, linkedin, etc. Not sure why S/MIME doesn't get any love. It works, its the most common email encryption scheme, and typically you don't need a third party application or command-line-fu to get it to work. I've seen the dimmest of office workers deal with it everyday.

dublinben 12y ago
>why not just attach one's key to one's public profile? This is equally valid for PGP keys, and a common practice among the security conscious.
darklajid 12y ago
A couple of the dimmest of office workers decided to use S/MIME - just because. We're using Office 365. I prefer OWA to any fat client. OWA cannot (with various failure modes, but let's just stick with "cannot") show S/MIME mails. A coworker sends mails that I cannot read in a web interface to the same mail store that he accessed to submit that amazing piece of art in the first place. S/MIME has no good reputation here..