Hello Miguel!
On Wednesday, April 24, 2002 at 7:18:00 PM you wrote:
> Any quick and brief explanation/opinion will be appreciated.
The difference between use of S/MIME and PGP is a conceptual one.
S/MIME relies on a centralised signer (certificate issuer), PGP relies
completely on what Phil Zimmermann called "Web of Trust" - public keys
have to be signed by other people.
The details of the idea behind the Web of Trust are a bit complicated
but can be read up on in the introduction to PGP by Phil Zimmermann.
You can obtain it by downloading the manual from Imad's site or from
here:
http://www.write4u.de/Dateien/PGP_Crypto_English.pdf
In short, I am all for PGP.
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Dierk Haasis
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