On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 02:54:13PM -0500, Nicholas Sushkin wrote: > On Sunday 19 February 2006 01:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 12:33:03AM +0200, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
>>> I still don't understand why you use PKCS#1, PKCS#8, X.509, CMC, >>> S/MIME and more... Why don't you invent some replacements for >>> these too? >> Big news for you: We are here precisely because we prefer OpenPGP >> to S/MIME. And *I* certainly don't use S/MIME. I use X.509 when >> really, really forced to (for TLS/SSL HTTP, jabber, POP3, IMAP4, >> ... servers), and then usually in a "flat" mode (self-signed certs, >> my own CA, ...). > Realistically speaking, when free software does not interoperate > with the commercial software with a large mindshare, it's the free > software loss. You seem to use "commercial" antagonistically to "free". A software can be both free (as in freedom) and commercial (that is, written in the goal of earning money). Realistically, in the crowds I hang out with, it is OpenPGP that has the mindshare. So even if I would prefer S/MIME, I'd be forced to use OpenPGP by the network effect. Other crowds force you to use S/MIME through the network effect. That's the nature of social crowds. And AFAIK, there is free software that supports S/MIME, isn't there? I have never tried to use them (by lack of any necessity or usefulness: nobody to communicate _with_), but I'm not hearing that they don't work or don't interoperate with proprietary implementations. -- Lionel _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
