On 22/11/16 15:52, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> On 22 Nov 2016, at 2:04, Stephen Farrell wrote:
> 
>>
>> 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.
> 
> How do you measure that? 

I've not. But I suspect it's roughly accurate. Data
would be good if someone has any.

> And, more importantly, why is it relevant to
> the DANE WG? 

It's not directly relevant for this document nor for
any current dane document, hence my changing the subject
line when asking Simson about his statement that that was
their main interest in this experiment.

> If some other effort creates a usable e2e mail encryption
> system, they keying might be able to be DANEized at that point.

Sure. But I'm only asking about why they (NIST I guess)
think a focus on enterprise uses of smime is a good
target, I wasn't suggesting any particular action.

S.


> 
> --Paul Hoffman
> 

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