Hi, * Mike Schiraldi [04/15/02 15:55:22 CEST] wrote:
[ interesting points ] Good points, thanks for mentioning. But in my opinion current problems/difficulties with PGP only affect people currently using it. So the concept of a web of trust and the resulting problems only motivate people currently using it to switch to S/MIME. Another point why PGP and encryption/signing is not very widely used is that there are lots people using the internet who are not technically interested in it. If they knew more details they maybe were interested in PGP or S/MIME. S/MIME won't become the no. 1 standard unless people see a need to use digital signatures. There're good reasons, I know, but someone has to tell them besides all the colorfull tv commercials promising ultimate security out-of-the-box. There are lots of servers still running telnet daemons and allowing users to log into a ftp machine by sending the passwort as plaintext. And not only that, some users/administrators don't see any reason why to switch to ssh. And on the other hand there're people complaining about PGPs web of trust and try to motivate others to use S/MIME instead. IMO there's a long way to go. Furthermore I personally prefer the pgp concept of trust than just to generally trust an authority. I don't know in detail how they work and thus don't want to trust them blindly that they're doing their job the way I would. I want to have the power to decide which key I trust and which not on my own. Cheers, Rocco.
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