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.
> 

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