a new free smime service, but...

2019-10-24 Thread gnupgpacker
So a trustful CA issueing free S/Mime certificates > 3 month and acceptance in major browsers / mail tools is wanted. Why doesn't Let's Encrypt offer this service? https://letsencrypt.org/ Why isn't CAcert after years of participation listed as trusted CA in root stores? http://www.cacert.org/

Re: Should gpg try to connect to TCP/993?

2019-10-24 Thread Mikhail Morfikov via Gnupg-users
On 24/10/2019 08:21, Patrick Brunschwig wrote: > Your guess is perfectly right, that's exactly what happens. Enigmail > uses a standard library provided by Mozilla for add-ons to execute > processes. Earlier versions of the library did close all file > descriptors correctly. But the library is writ

Re: a new free smime service, but...

2019-10-24 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> Why doesn't Let's Encrypt offer this service? Because it's outside the scope of what Let's Encrypt exists to do, which is make it easy to provide HTTPS support to small websites. SMTP is *totally* outside of Let's Encrypt's mission. If you've got a problem with that, take it up with Let's Encr

Re: a new free smime service, but...

2019-10-24 Thread Ralph Seichter
* gnupgpac...@on.yourweb.de: > Why doesn't Let's Encrypt offer this service? S/MIME certificates have been repeatedly discussed and rejected in the LE community, pretty much since LE's inception. There even used to be a related FAQ entry. One reason is that LE's self declared goal is to provide