Hello Deryk Lister,
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:01:52 +0100 GMT your local time,
which was Friday, August 04, 2000, 8:01:52 PM (GMT+0700) my local time,
Deryk Lister wrote:
> Hi phil,
> On Friday 04/08/2000 at 11:47, you wrote:
>> What does this mean for someone who doesn't have a key by Sept 1,
>> 2000, or for those that have a key, but the year is now 2001?
> If they don't get a key by then, they won't be able to get it signed
> by Thawte. If they do have one, it will stay valid - at least for a
> year I think.
> In other words, if you don't have it signed by them yet then it's a
> good idea to do so ASAP before it's too late :)
> Don't know why they are going for S/MIME. It's very
> Microsoft-flavoured (ie. bloated), especially in the fact that it
> makes signed messages huge, whereas PGP sigs are quite small - and it
> takes a lot of effort and money to get yourself a decent certificate
> (ie with your name on and better than a measly 1024 bit RSA).
want to bet thats one of the reasons? There is money to be made by
those keys.... if controllable.
> Far prefer PGP myself. Free, secure, no harder to use, much less
> bloated.
and free, not controlled by any of the big companies.
Ok, commercial pgp may be but there isnt much they can do about
charging for keys...
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