On 22/11/16 07:49, Peter Gutmann wrote: > Stephen Farrell <[email protected]> writes: > >> Is there a particular reason to try focus on enterprises here? > > That's about the only environment where it's feasible to deploy S/MIME.
Sure. And yet smime is only deployed in a tiny fraction of enterprises and probably only used in a smallish fraction of the mail sent in those. > > That's not intended as a snarky reply, it's serious. You set up an S/MIME > gateway to deal with it, and all of the tech issues are handled by the > sysadmins without the users having to get involved. > > The protocol for user-level email encryption is called STARTTLS. > Today, yes. One might argue to just give up on e2e email security, but as long as we're still willing to tilt at that windmill (and I am;-) then it's not at all clear to me that a focus on enterprise deployments is a sensible target. It was a sensible target (that we missed) 20 years ago, but not today. Cheers, S. > Peter. >
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
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